My elderly parents both have laptops with Windows 11 (don’t @ me, they can’t possibly learn a new OS at this point). Every once in a while they briefly throw up like 100 cmd windows. I have no clue what they are.
The amount of legitimate software that’s just batch scripts is pretty amusing. I always make sure to read and understand what it’s doing in that case, though
When you see a cmd window or two flash into and out of existence after trying to open something:
My work PC does this every time I turn it on. After 2 years it still gives me that jolt of “oh shit”.
Same, and I have no idea what that is
Probably some GPO deployed script your admins configured at boot to tweak some registry nonsense or other corpo-spyware related crap.
I am my own admin 🥲
Stop spying on yourself!
My elderly parents both have laptops with Windows 11 (don’t @ me, they can’t possibly learn a new OS at this point). Every once in a while they briefly throw up like 100 cmd windows. I have no clue what they are.
Not sure what you’re calling elderly, but my FIL turned 70 this year, and I just set him up with Mint a few months ago. Dude is loving it.
Rename cmd.exe to anything else.exe problem solved xD. (I don’t know if that would be a great idea)
The amount of legitimate software that’s just batch scripts is pretty amusing. I always make sure to read and understand what it’s doing in that case, though