Command Prompt Appears And Disappears Windows 10
Hey folks,I am wondering if I can get some help figuring out what's going on with my system. First the specs:Acer Aspire One 522 (Netbook)1GB DDR3AMD Dual-Core C-50 (1GHz)Windows 7 StarterThe system is only about two weeks old. What's happening is that at seemingly random intervals (though I've only noticed it when running my browser, IIRC) a black window which resembles a command prompt in size and shape will suddenly appear and then disappear.
I've run Spybot and am am running Avast as an antivirus (not a huge McAfee fan, which is what came with the system - uninstalled on first day). My browser is Chrome and I usually have a very small notepad file, a folder and maybe 3 tabs (max - never more than one with any media like Youtube, etc., and rarely that) open.It just shows up and then disappears, too quickly to even read any text that might describe the window.Any ideas?. After doing this, I did notice the following error around the same time, though I am still not certain this is what it was:Log Name: ApplicationSource: SideBySideDate: Event ID: 33Task Category: NoneLevel: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: (My)-PCDescription: Activation context generation failed for 'C:Windowssystem32conhost.exe'.
Dependent Assembly Microsoft.Windows.SystemCompatible,processorArchitecture='x86',publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df',type='win32',version='6.0.7600.16823' could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis. Click start, in the search/run dialogue type msconfiggo to the startup tab and uncheck everything except your AV software.
See if it keeps happening after a restart, and also check to make sure nothing is still checked in there. You can also google a program called Autoruns and use it to ensure nothing else is running at startup. AV software isn't that great at finding malware in my opinion and it's possible that spybot isn't familiar with whatever it is.
You can also download the new version of process explorer. In fact, start there. Keep it running and keep an eye on it.
You'll see a process appear in green any time a program opens or something starts up. That will show you what the process running the command prompt is and you can research it from there.
If you run Windows 10, you may have noticed a popup window being launched on the screen once a day, or even regularly.It is spawned, and immediately closed again. This makes it difficult to understand what spawns it, why it is launched, and whether it is something that you need to be concerned about.One of the issues of this is that you may be thrown out of fullscreen applications when that happens. Several users of Windows 10 reported that they get the window every hour or so, and that it makes playing games a nightmare because of that.The file that gets executed every hour or so is called officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe, and you find it under C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficerootOffice16officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe. If you log processes on your system for instance, you may notice that this is the case on your Windows 10 device.The issue has been a hot topic since April 15th when a user it on Microsoft's official Answer forum.Is there a really, really good reason that the 'OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration' task (see it in Task Scheduler, Microsoft, Office) must run every hour?
This is what it says that it does: 'This task initiates Office Background Task Handler, which updates relevant Office data.' I ask, because it runs officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe in such a way that it flashes a window (itself) on the screen. Only instantaneously to be sure, but it's noticeable, especially once you catch onto what's happening. You can run the task manually if you want to see it without waiting.If Microsoft Office runs on the Windows 10 machine, two tasks are scheduled to run OfficeBackgroundTaskHandler. They are:. OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerLogon which runs when the user logs on to the system.
No Command Prompt Windows 10
OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration which runs every hour.SolutionsThe task window should not be launched when the task is run, and there are plenty of ways that Microsoft could have picked to hide the task window instead of spawning it every hour on the user system.The two main options that you have are to disable the task, or to switch it from running under User to System. Disabling the TaskIt is unclear what the task does, and you should monitor Office closely after disabling it to make sure everything works as intended. The task is still run on logon though. Tap on the Windows-key, type Task Scheduler, and hit the Enter-key. Go to Task Scheduler Task Scheduler Library Microsoft Office. Locate the task OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration.
Right-click on the task, and select the disable option.Run under System accountThe second option that you have is to change the user group the task runs under. Switching it to System reportedly hides the popup window from spawning. Tap on the Windows-key, type Task Scheduler, and hit the Enter-key. Go to Task Scheduler Task Scheduler Library Microsoft Office. Right-click on OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration and select Properties.
Select 'Change User or Group'. Type system. Click ok.Now You: Did you run into the spawning command window issue on Windows before? There is a lot more software available on Linux that 10 years ago. Just used the scanning software and it worked perfectly on Linux Mint 18.1.I’m also running Windows 7 in Virtualbox which comes with Linux Mint.
Its really easy to install a virtual Windows 7 and all the software I use runs exactly as it should. When I need an Windows 7 program, I just fire up the virtual machine. I start virtual Windows 7 every 3-4 days and use it a lot less than what I would have expected.I’ve been a Windows user for over 20 years, an MCSE and a programmer and have just migrated my main system to Linux. Great system. Not everyone possesses the computer skills that you apparently do, Corky. As a matter of fact, you are in the EXTREME minority and apparently have some kind of grudge against Microsoft (probably a Linux user?).
So, I have found your comment to be of no use and a bit frustrating. The OVERWHELMING majority of users do not have a clue nor do they care in the least what is going on in their updates. Just update my machine. As long as I remain functional, I am good to go. So, laugh at my technological ignorance if you will.
I possess skills that you may not. I, for instance, can sell just about ANYTHING and make a half a million a year doing it. That means I can hire a couple of people like yourself to worry about what’s going on in those pesky little updates. Oh my god thank you so much for this article. This drove me crazy over the holiday weekend and I was just setting up monitoring to try to figure it out. I saw the headline and instantly knew it had the answer I needed, a rare and good feeling indeed.This combined with the fact that you cannot remove individual programs from Office 2016 (like Skype for Business) is really making me question whether I need this stuff installed in the first place.
Maybe I’ll take another stab at OpenOffice, the only truly irreplaceable component is Outlook and I can get that standalone. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I’ve noticed this program instantly pop up and disappear several times a day, and not only was the popping up annoying already, it was MINIMIZING MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS DURING MATCHES!!!!!
Command Prompt Appears And Disappears Windows 10 Screen
I was.fairly. certain that this wasn’t malware or a virus as I’ve been EXTREMELY careful about those sorts of things, and windows defender hasn’t found any threats ever on my computer, even after this problem started appearing. I looked in my programs and features under the control panel, and when I saw that two programs had updated about the same day this problem appeared – League and Microsoft Office – I had a sneaking suspicion that Office was the culprit. Well I eventually had to use Xsplit Broadcaster to RECORD MY SCREEN until this thing popped up again, then replayed the video trying to pause it at the right moment to see what the program was. Sure enough (and it took me a LOT of tries to catch the window, it’s SO FAST), it was this dang office background task handler. This has been frustrating me since the 27th, thank you so much for sharing these solutions, it was driving me crazy!. Running it under system account is bad idea, because it uses profile of user it runs under.