Windows 10: Mysterious Command Prompt popups - please help

Well, it happened again at 0:00, so it seems to start every 6 hours. But unfortunately Process Lasso did not show anything in the log! Is this strange?

 

I managed to take a glimpse at the task manager while the popup happened. In the processes tab, sorted by CPU%, at the top was Service Host: Local System (14). I'm switching to Details, maybe it will help narrow it down.

Is it reasonable to say now that a third party process can be excluded as the culprit?

 

Process Lasso must be running in the background all the time to log what's going on.

 

Oh, it was. The window was open on the left side of my 27" monitor all the time. *Smile
But strangely, the popup left no trace in the log.

 

UPDATE: I cought it. Finally. Had to record a video with my DSLR, and even then it lasted only 2 frames at 30fps! *What





It's a schtasks.exe, apparently the task scheduler. Albeit i found no such tasks there. Please, can somebody help, i'm going bonkers here... *Confused

 

Well, well, well... I went full retard in the Task Scheduler and deleted a bunch of stinking MS related spying tasks, and... there we go. No popup anymore. At least i can't reproduce it, all of a sudden.

Since my PC beginnings with win98 i was a tweaking extremist, but in the last years i went easier and easier. Win7 was working more or less out of the box, and i thought that finally Win10 will be so user friendly that no more tweaking and disabling would be necessary. WRONG!

I'm taking my control back! "Turn that shit off" is my motto once more. And yeah, FU MS. *Mad

 

YOU GO BOY/GIRL! Glad your persistence paid off. It would be interesting for everyone to know exactly what scheduled task was causing the problem as this forum is the first place Windows 10 users go to find solutions. You might can find the culprit in the list of scheduled tasks by enabling half of what you disabled and rebooting. Then you could enable the rest a few at a time to narrow it down to the goofy one. Of course you'll have to reboot between changes for the task to take effect.

 

Hi, I am having these Command prompt pop ups to wish a cleaned hdd and clean install. What tasks did u delete in Task manager? Thanks in advance!

 

I am having the same problem, and I only updated to Win 10 about a week ago, so I assume I have it othe latest version. Also when I attempt to log into Xbox, an account appears that I know nothing about, never having used Xbox" before. There is also no " lets play " button on the opening Xbox screen. Could these three factors have a single cause?

 

I am having the same problem, and I only updated to Win 10 about a week ago, so I assume I have it othe latest version. Also when I attempt to log into Xbox, an account appears that I know nothing about, never having used Xbox" before. There is also no " lets play " button on the opening Xbox screen. Could these three factors have a single cause?

 

I'm not a gamer so I don't use Xbox but if you're trying to play a game that may be what they're calling a "gamertag" that is automatically generated.
Read this article to see if it answers any of your questions. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/0...whats-missing/
Depending on what you're trying to do you may want to have a look at your default programs. I turned Xbox off and am using Media Player for my music & VLC Media player for videos.

 

Thanks for that info. I just attempted to log in to Xbox to see what it was about. It obviously does not function on my laptop, so I will do as you have and turn it off. Waste of space.
I also downloaded the old win7 game set, and that works which is all I really wanted.