

This worked but I wondered if that was a bit over the top so I reverted my VM to try simply renaming the ptsrv.exe to something else to see if that was enough. On my first go around, I deleted all the classes root regkeys to prevent the dcom launch of the application. Looking in dcomcnfg there is a "ptService" object with a Application ID of " The process that svchost.exe starts is called "ptsrv.exe" If anyone has any advice for me it would be greatly appreciated! I'll be the first to admit that I can be extremely particular about how my applications behave and sometimes I'm a little irrational, but this is unacceptable.
#Uninstall webex productivity tools mac how to
All my Google searching just lead me to options on how to prevent it from starting automatically on boot the explicit setting for it, the startup settings in task manager, etc. This is after I have exited the application by right-clicking the tray icon and choosing "Exit". When I look at the task manager the only thing I see Webex related is the "Cisco Webex Service" and "Cisco Webex Meetings Plugins Service". I want to be able to use the desktop app, but I do NOT want it just opening itself whenever it feels like it. At first I thought it might be triggering because I have events on my Outlook calendar, but that doesn't seem to always be the case so I ruled that out. No Windows login or locking and logging in.

Windows gives me the tray notification and the light on the webcam turns on. However it will eventually just open itself and start accessing my microphone. I have already set it to not open when windows launches. I have the Webex desktop application, and the plugin tools for Outlook.
