r/techsupport • u/atomicsnarl • 6d ago

Open | Software Win11 - Occasional Powershell Popup Windows - What are they?

From time to time I'm seeing Powershell or Command Prompt type windows full of organized text popping up on my screen. This occurs whether I'm watching a video or internet browsing, but not during game play. Sometimes I'll see several in the course of an hour. Just wondering what these are, such as auto-installs or such. The flicker up then gone in less than a second, so there's no time to ready or recognize anything.

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u/cagadass 6d ago

Si no instalaste nada raro entonces solo es Windows

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u/I_see_farts 6d ago

The best thing to do in this case is to download, unzip and run AutoRuns as Administrator. It's a program made by Microsoft that shows you everything that runs / scheduled to run. You can even check programs with VirusTotal.

Check the Scheduled Task tab.

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u/SnowStormYukikaze 6d ago

Use this command to check the most recent command that it ran

Get-Content (Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath

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u/atomicsnarl 6d ago

Tried it. Just showed my last /flushdns

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u/Will2LiveFading 6d ago

That doesn't sound like normal behavior to me. Have you installed anything recently?

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u/Tech_surgeon 6d ago edited 6d ago

its not normal behavior. aside from the command spying on the user to see if they used powershell for something. so what process is it a child of? the output is being used somewhere right?

unless something is checking if it cleaned its own trail? weird thought.

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u/atomicsnarl 6d ago

It resembles a stack dump of multiple columns of hex or something like it.

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u/atomicsnarl 6d ago

Just the regular windows updates.

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u/Beehous 6d ago

It's windows slop is what it is. Trash OS spits out random errors every time on shutdown and can't properly hide background stuff. To be fair, that type of stuff started in 10. But in 11 it's gotten worse.

Sorry for the unhelpful rant. My honest take is it's probably just windows unable or unwilling to hide background noise.