virus scare - Why the fuck does Microsoft Office have a background process that opens a cmd window every hour? - devRant

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kunashe

1968

8y

I fuckin noticed this too. I thought it was some nefarious software I caught on the interweb.
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drRoss

4880

8y

Yeah, this is weird. You can disable it in the task scheduler though.
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bkwilliams

7315

8y

I've seen the window, how did you find that is is Office?
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Pachari

62

8y

@bkwilliams it's called "officebackgroundtaskhandler" or something like that
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Triskelion

961

8y

It's Microsoft only use it for photo/video editing and games. Otherwise don't use it...

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