Runaway Zombie Task in Task Scheduler

[K.Kong]

I have a really weird situation in a Windows 10 Pro.There's a task X in Task Scheduler. It is shown as Disabled, and yet it is running at the scheduled interval of every 15 minutes. I modified parameters of the task, and yet it is still running using the original parameters. I then deleted the task, but it continues to run right on schedule.The first thought that comes to mind is that I have been modifying the wrong task. But I searched the content of every file in `$env:windir\System32\Tasks` and all its sub-directories and none (other than task X) was found to contain the clearly unique str

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