I'd forgotten about that one. A rather clever workaround!
To be explicit:
-Hold down either one of your keyboard's ALT keys
-Press (and release) the "9" key
on the numeric keypad.
-Without releasing the ALT key, press the "2" key on the numeric keypad.
-Finally, let go of the ALT key.
This works regardless of whether Num Lock is on, but you have to use the numeric keypad. I use that for special characters (particularly °, ALT-0176) frequently - it beats looking them up in Character Map.
If you just kill the task while Windows is running, it might not work - you should try taking it out of startup alltogether. A handy utility for disabling such things is Autoruns from
http://www.sysinternals.com .