Recent content by Teflon

You're right, of course. That was going to be my next step, but I was sitting watching Netflix (as you do) and in a moment of boredom just opened up Task Manager to see what was running. I honestly didn't expect for one minute to have any success just stopping random programmes and was more...

Just to bring this up to date: Sadly, running the sfc/scannow command did not fix things as the issue returned after a day or so. Taking inspiration from the post above, I had a look at Task Manager to see what background service & apps were running and tried closing them down one by one. As...

Thanks for the very quick response. Just ran sfc /scannow and it reported that corrupted files were found and repaired. Hopefully that will be the fix, but as it's random issue, it will be a while before I know for sure. Fingers crossed!! Thanks again for the help, I'll report back in a day or...

An odd one here. Every now & then, my Win 11 task bar becomes unresponsive until I minimize any open programmes, at which point it behave normally again. It doesn't do it all the time, and so far, I've not noticed any pattern in the behaviour. It seems to be completely random (though I doubt...

The worse thing is, I know you're both right :cool:!! Back in my younger days, I used to welcome new tech, and new ways of doing things. Now, I'm older and more set in my ways, I'm far more reluctant to change my habits. In reality, programs like Start 11 are really just a crutch for folk like...

Thanks folks. Have to admit, I couldn't get on with Sysmon, as I couldn't fathom how to work it! :rolleyes:.. I think I've found the cause though (if not the reason behind it). I mentioned in my opening post that the only software I have installed so far is "Start 11" from Stardock, so I...

Thanks. Just tried that, but it found nothing wrong. Had a quick look at Event Viewer, and there re a lot of entries for powershell relating to Tiworker.exe. I think that's something to do with Windows update, so could be due to the fact that it's brand new machine, so lots of updating &...

Thanks for the quick reply. Just downloaded autoruns, but nothing shows up for Powershell (though according to Task Manager, it is still popping up every few seconds). Very odd! I'm wondering if it's worth trying something as simple as temporarily re-naming the file extension for Powershell...

I got a new laptop yesterday (Lenovo i7, 16GB Ram, Win 11 Home). Battery life seems pretty poor, so I checked settings, and it shows Powershell as using 46% of the battery. I have checked Task Manager, and Powershell keeps popping up briefly for around a second or so continually. I have used...