Removing default (auto-detect) Tasks (launch.json and task.json) in vscode

Question

When I try to Run Build Task for any C/C++ file, I am asked by VScode to determine which task I want to use, or configure a new task.json, via a pop-up menu. As shown in the screenshot in the below

Now there are just too many tasks, I want to remove some of them so that the recent ones that I configured will be shown in the menu.

So, I am looking for a way to delete those ones and have my recently configured tasks as the defaults.

I am on macOS Catalina, using the latest version of VScode.

Answer 1

Set task.autoDetect to off

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks#_task-autodetection

It can also be overridden per extension

{
  "typescript.tsc.autoDetect": "off",
  "grunt.autoDetect": "off",
  "jake.autoDetect": "off",
  "gulp.autoDetect": "off",
  "npm.autoDetect": "off"
}

like so if the extension supports it.