{"id":213226,"date":"2017-05-31T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=213226"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:36:03","slug":"microsoft-office-bug-opens-a-cmd-window-then-quickly-closes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/213226-microsoft-office-bug-opens-a-cmd-window-then-quickly-closes-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office bug opens a CMD window then quickly closes it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/msoffice\/forum\/msoffice_officeinsider-mso_win10\/officebackgroundtaskhandlerregistration-flashes-a\/2600497e-78e4-41a1-9040-461cd2c3ea13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A Microsoft Office bug<\/strong><\/a> is resulting in the &#8220;OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration&#8221; task running every hour, which is frustrating users.<\/p>\n<p>The task initiates the Office Background Task Handler, which updates Office data.<\/p>\n<p>The bug, which runs officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe, means that a window appears for a very short time on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said there is a fix for the problem, which will be available in an update for Office.<\/p>\n<p>One Microsoft user provided the fix below for users who do not want to wait for the update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two scheduled tasks in Task Scheduler Library\/Microsoft\/Office:<\/p>\n<p><strong>OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerLogon<\/strong> that runs when a user logs on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration<\/strong> that runs every hour.<\/p>\n<p>Both were set to run under the &#8220;Users&#8221; account group. Since I didn&#8217;t notice any pop-up at logon, I set OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration to run under the &#8220;System&#8221; account and the hourly pop-ups are now hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Select the task &gt; right click &gt; Properties &gt; click on Change User Or Group &gt; type System &gt; OK twice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/211814-microsofts-plans-to-cut-data-costs-for-windows-updates-in-south-africa.html\">Microsoft\u2019s plans to cut data costs for Windows updates in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Microsoft Office bug is resulting in the &#8220;OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration&#8221; task running every hour, which is frustrating users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,6599],"class_list":["post-213226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213236,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213226\/revisions\/213236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}