PSA: for Those Getting a Command Prompt Popping up Randomly When in a Full-Screened Application

currentfad on 28/05/2017 - 20:44
Last edited 28/05/2017 - 21:38

Was happening today and I was paranoid that I had a virus or something.

Dug around and found a couple of reddit threads, but TLDR:

Task Scheduler > Microsoft > Office > Right click "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration" > Disable or Delete.

Seems to be various solutions but I've gone with the solution above.

Comments

0p on 28/05/2017 - 21:18

+2

Thanks spaghettiman!
Forskin on 28/05/2017 - 21:28

+1

Wow this has been happening to me for a long while now. Just downloaded an anti-virus today but it didn't pick up anything. Couldn't for the life of me figure it out. Thanks so much!
trustnoone on 28/05/2017 - 21:33

+1

Ohhhhh so thats whats been going on, I had no idea, I literally reformatted my computer last night just in case. Would've saved me a reformat XD Thanks anyways mate.
Venison93 on 29/05/2017 - 09:46

+1

Thanks for that. I was really starting to get paranoid there for a second.
OverburdenedWarrior on 29/05/2017 - 20:16

+1

Cheers, it's popping up on the eighth minute of every hour and was pissing me off!
backslashio on 03/06/2017 - 01:31

+1

I've googled this & ran a full Malwarebytes scan, couldn't find anything! Initially thought it was related to crappy W10 updates or Nvidia drivers because I could only see it on video related content
Doggiie on 03/06/2017 - 12:28

+1

With the recent scare of WannaCry, I was a little worried and full scanned with Avast and MalwareBytes and nothing!

Thanks OP!