At the same time, you might notice a bunch of tasks scheduled to run on your machine which you might choose to disable too. You’re all set! You shouldn’t get that task running anymore.

Right click this entry and select Disable: This is especially if the Command Prompt window flashes when the system is left idle for a few minutes. If a Command Prompt window opens up and closes quickly, it could be due to automatic maintenance task(s) kicking in. Rename myfile.bat with something like WindowsUpdateNotifier.bat or people wont fall for the trick Now open your favorite text editor (such as Notepad++) and open the script. The following are the common reasons why a Command Prompt window would open and close automatically. You should see an entry named ManifestUpdate. When a CMD prompt pops up, type the following command: copy nul myfile.bat. Now expand the Task Scheduler Library in the left pane, and expand MySQL > Installer under it. You know, attributing it to the background initialisation of the NSA’s tools :) Normally I would have not realised this, on my Win7 PC I have a few automated tasks which initiate some bat files, so I see this daily (I recently discovered timeout 5 which adds a 5 second delay before closing the cmd prompt so now I know exactly what happens). I followed the instructions here, and thought I’d share it with you for Windows 8.1. In this video you can fix your cmd popup window which is poped up by some malware you have to clear your pc by rkill software.download the rkill by using the. As I don’t remember agreeing to having MySQL checking every day for changes, I decided to disable this. I searched about it and came across a few places talking about it – apparently it’s a phone-home updater. I captured the program and copied the command window text. The third time it happened, I knew there was something weird. I dismissed it a second time thinking “Oh well, maybe some more updates or something… or maybe it just started up after some long update process.” However this popup appeared again, and again I was surprised. The first time I saw this, I figured it was just some post-installation cleanup that MySQL was performing, and since I hadn’t launched it more than once after the first installation, it seemed natural. However I was in the middle of doing something else on a different night when I suddenly saw a suspicious popup window that looked something like this: However I had to install it recently for something I was working on, and chose the Community Edition available here.Įverything went fine. I’ve been so used to the flexibility that MongoDB offers me that I haven’t looked at MySQL in ages. I recently installed MySQL after a long time.

Cmd prompt pops up randomly