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Roughly once every day or two, a pop-up window appears on my computer. It disappears in a tiny fraction of a second, impossible to discern where it is coming from.
Any suggestions about how to catch which program it might belong to?
- A process monitor might catch it, but only if it is not from an existing application.
- Closing programs one at a time and waiting two days to see if it doesn't happen (or if I don't notice), is... impractical.
An application which could log all windows and associated processes would probably detect it. I don't know of such an app.
I'm suspecting this is some status dialog from some program like MS Outlook, ATI drivers or Epson multifunction spam. The machine is well patched and been thoroughly scanned by multiple AVs, so I'm reasonably certain it is not any form of malware.
I should have added that nothing appears on the taskbar. I'll give the script a shot. I'm doubtful only because it's sooo fast and without the icon on the taskbar, the window probably belongs to an existing app. Any screen capture utility would need to record video. This thing appears and disappears within maybe 50ms.. – mgjk – 2015-03-21T15:22:34.410
A wsh which can catch the titles of windows might be more effective. E.g., the titles which would be caught by AppActivate. – mgjk – 2015-03-21T15:24:41.963