What background tasks it does, I don't know. It's been showing up about once an hour, at a specific time each hour. I'm sure this has been going on all along, but the Command window hasn't started showing up until now.

I know you're joking, but Microsoft has all sorts of crap going on in background tasks. People who are concerned about that probably shouldn't be running Windows or Microsoft Office. Personally, I'm not concerned. Nothing I do is of interest to anyone, really, so I just ignore that nonsense.

As far as tracking keystrokes is concerned, that seems very unlikely. There aren't enough computers on the planet to analyze all of that, so why would Microsoft bother to do it? That's why I pay no attention to that kind of thing.

I don't have Word 16, but I do have a couple Win10 machines that have little quirks.

While Cortana is primarily disabled, being one of their chief collectors, they still send directory and files back home for data mining, passage to the NSA and for Amazon marketing. Just as all your emails are scanned by multiple actors, the scanning of a document does not take that much time. The hueristic logic used and the processors thrown at incoming files does this pretty well. They know which stuff on a computer is user created and which is not. They're only harvesting user files.

Some of the researchers and professors, where I take continuing education courses, use laptops with their network cards physically removed in an attempt to protect intellectual property as they are drafting papers.

It operates much more frequently and never really shows up on screen. I couldn't find out what background activity this particular thing does, but who knows. Windows is always messing around in the background, doing garbage removal and other things in memory. I stopped being able to follow all of that some time ago.

It's all just a black box these days. I use it to do what I need to do, and just don't worry about any of it any more.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_officeinsider-mso_win10/officebackgroundtaskhandlerregistration-flashes-a/2600497e-78e4-41a1-9040-461cd2c3ea13

Read through, but the latest update:

This issue is fixed starting with build 16.0.8201.2025 which is now available as the latest update for those participating in the Office Insiders Slow program. It will be included in a future update for those not participating in Insiders.

For more information on joining Office Insiders see the Office Insider page.

Thank you everyone for reporting this issue!


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Most other searches find the same thing, such as


http://www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-3420812/microsoft-command-prompt-pop-randomly.html


Read through, but the ending seems to be:

Open up Task scheduler, then on your right Task Scheduler Library then Microsoft and then Office. Disable OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration and you should be good.

couldn't afford the annual "subscription" price.

No matter, using OpenOffice now. Works fine for what I need and it's free.

I do remember that insta-window thing a while back. Was mildly worried, but never saw any negative things, so kind of shrugged it off. I guess I do notice that it hasn't been showing up recently.

I just purchased a HP Care Package so that I could get their remote support, because I didn't know what that was....thanks a lot for sharing.

It started after the last hacking event. I figured it was something in the DU software. But, the time on my tablet was also messed up when I opened up DU this morning. I couldn't read DU until I fixed the clock. It was all really weird.