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| Thread ID: 143994 | 2017-05-31 09:07:00 | CMD window flashing open every hour | Jen (38) | Press F1 |
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| 1435964 | 2017-05-31 09:07:00 | Hi all, Over the last week or two I've noticed that for an extremely brief moment a command window flashes open at 50 mins past the hour, every hour. I have looked at the task scheduler and cannot see anything that is set to run at that time. I got creative and filmed the screen at the expected time and managed to capture the window flashing open. Even slowed down to 0.125x speed the window is very fast (~30 ms) so it is difficult to see any details. The cmd box stays empty, but I can just make out in the title bar area showing C:\Program Files\M?? with the rest too blurred to read. So I am guessing it is a Microsoft program. Any suggestions to what is behind this, or any other program I can use to put a trace on whatever jumps into action at that point in time? Windows 10 - fully updated and ESET Smart Security fully updated. 8099 Thanks. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1435965 | 2017-05-31 09:27:00 | Likely to be related to Office. twitter.com | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1435966 | 2017-05-31 09:33:00 | Ohhh - good spotting! I have disabled OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration so will see if the phantom window appears in 17 mins .. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1435967 | 2017-05-31 09:42:00 | Had the same problem the other day ( thought I'd had one to many beers and seeing things) ;) After I ran some commands to fix a minor problem it stopped. May or may not have been a coincidence. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1435968 | 2017-05-31 09:54:00 | Well that appears to have sorted it. :D | Jen (38) | ||
| 1435969 | 2017-05-31 09:56:00 | After I ran some commands to fix a minor problem it stopped.format c: /fs:NTFS? :devil | Jen (38) | ||
| 1435970 | 2017-05-31 10:15:00 | format c: /fs:NTFS? :devil LOL :lol: Not quite. Haven't used that command since W98 Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1435971 | 2017-05-31 11:15:00 | Ohhh - good spotting! I have disabled OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration so will see if the phantom window appears in 17 mins .. It's not often I have to go through Taylor Swift (twitter.com)'s tweets to find tech support answers :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1435972 | 2017-06-01 22:19:00 | Ya think a flashing CMD box is a surprise -- Just about crapped myself :eek: :lol: Just working in the workshop, door open, nice and fresh, nice day, just working away quite happy, only the sound of the traffic outside and a few birds, then in a LOUD bellowing female voice The damn computer all of a sudden calls out the Time-WTF :eek: Tracked it down to a new Dock. The old free one I had been using ( objectdock) is not working with the latest Insider build, so found another free one yesterday that does the same. Didn't know there is a setting that's on by default that calls out the time every hour -------- geeeeeeeeeeeees |
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