#Checking what .exe or other program is launching itself

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frail nacelle
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Hi there,

I have a weird (and alarming) issue whereby sometimes I'll be running my PC, playing a game or browsing, and then I'll get momentarily alt-tabbed while what looks like a command line/windows powershell window quickly pops up and disappears.

Naturally I'm concerned about not knowing what this mystery popup/program is, how can I check what it is in my Event Viewer or similar and what it's doing? I know of one legitimate application that might behave like this

wary delta
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Something to check:

  • Your startup tasks
  • Processes
frail nacelle
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i can do that but it's strange because it seems to trigger/start during operation of the pc

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is there a way to kinda look at some kind of log/history to see what started in the past few minutes for when it happens again

wary delta
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Doubt

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It still sounds like some installer/update running in silent mode, who knows

dreamy remnant