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[–] 59 points 2 months ago (10 children)

When you see a cmd window or two flash into and out of existence after trying to open something:

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    My work PC does this every time I turn it on. After 2 years it still gives me that jolt of "oh shit".

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Same, and I have no idea what that is

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Probably some GPO deployed script your admins configured at boot to tweak some registry nonsense or other corpo-spyware related crap.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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