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Effect of "Restore Important Windows Services"
Boggin:
This is why I suggested disabling non-MS services in msconfig.
fjjr:
Yes - I'll do that - disable the adobe updater - and report back.
Presumably the black box is svchost.exe running and for some reason showing a console.
We have yet to establish a link to Adobe updater, but for what it is worth I can see no switches on the script in the scheduled task.
Boggin:
Disable all non-MS services then reboot to see if it still pops up.
If it doesn't then re-enable a couple at a time until it does and then it will be easy to ID which one.
If it still pops up then disable all under the Startup tab and check again.
Otherwise it's back to the drawing board if a complete clean boot doesn't stop it.
Have you ran an antimalware scan ?
fjjr:
Thanks Boggin. All of that gives me a number of ways of homing in on the source of this odd behaviour. I will report back when I have followed those leads.
fjjr:
I think I have moved the matter forward now, albeit by a slightly different route.
I tried running the scheduled Adobe Flash Player update task a few times, and on each occasion, if I left at least a few seconds between runs, the mystery black box appeared. The same did not happen when running other scheduled tasks. So I think the link to Adobe is clearly established. I note however that when running certain tasks a similar box opened to inform of progress, and I now upload a couple of screenprints showing that. They relate to the Windows defrag utility, the UltraDefrag utility, and a script that I schedule to run periodically via TakeCommand to flush data from cache to drive (to reduce the potential data loss from a system hang or crash). The odd thing about the Adobe box is that it opens but is empty. I suppose I could try uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe flash player to see whether doing so removes this odd behaviour, but the fact that this behaviour only differs from other established behaviour in that the box is empty seems to suggest that it is probably not indicative of a substantive problem.
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