News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on MS Paint is here to stay. Parent comment

Re:MS Paint is here to stay by positivecomment on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:03AM (#14845715)
When that "Get Office" thing first popped-up, I was sure my PC was infected with malware and came to the brink of formatting my hard drive.

Later came the random console pop-up from the automatic WSL updates [1] and then I did panic enough to actually format all the things but that's another story.

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/841

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:MS Paint is here to stay by etatoby on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:17AM (#14846805)
The random console popups give me the jeebies! I still don't know what causes them. Never had such things on older Windows/Lenovo machines.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:MS Paint is here to stay by Jwarder on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:26AM (#14847517)
You might want to review the scheduled tasks. My system had "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration" set to run every hour. It only pops up for an instant, but it would grab input focus and thus do bad things to my blood pressure.
[ Parent | on HN ]