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I have a Lenovo computer running Windows 10 Home. A while back I noticed that a .bat file would sometimes execute spontaneously. I notice it because a cmd prompt window pops up (in front of whatever I'm working with at the moment) and directly shuts down again, the way a .bat file does when it just executes commands/does whatever and there is no info to show to the user.

I noticed that there was a point in time when this started, but there was no obvious correlation with anything I installed around that time.

My question is this: is there a way to log which .bat files are executed (or similar)? Then I could, when I notice the cmd prompt popping up and disappearing I could just go into that log and see which files were recently executed.

tl;dr I am looking for a way to log all executions of .bat files, in order to identify an intermittently executing one.

razofz
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This is likely the Office updater popping up.

First, open the Task Scheduler app as an administrator. The easiest method is to go to the Cortana search field and enter “Task Scheduler,” then right-click on the app and select “Run as administrator.”

Next, expand the Task Scheduler Library, and then Microsoft, and select Office.

Right-click on “OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration” and select “Disable.”

See https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/here-is-a-fix-for-microsoft-office-command-prompt-issue/

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plttn
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You can query your task scheduler with this batch file :

@echo off 
schtasks /query | find /I /V "Microsoft" > "%temp%\tasks1.txt"
Type "%temp%\tasks1.txt" | find /I /V "N/A" > "%temp%\tasks2.txt"
Type "%temp%\tasks2.txt" | find /I /V "stat" > "%temp%\tasks3.txt"
Type "%temp%\tasks3.txt" | find /I /V "=" > "%temp%\tasks4.txt"
Type "%temp%\tasks4.txt" | find /I /V "INFORMATION" > "%temp%\tasks5.txt"
If exist c:\tasks.txt del c:\tasks.txt  
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('Type "%temp%\tasks5.txt"') do (
    echo %%a >>c:\tasks.txt
)
for /f "delims=" %%# in ('Dir /b /s "%temp%\tasks*"') do (
    Del "%%#">nul 2>&1
)
Start "" c:\tasks.txt
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