
If no computers see the drive when you connect it–even in the Disk Management window–the USB drive itself is likely dead.
Try a Different Computer: Try plugging the USB drive into a different computer and see if the other computer detects it. It’s possible the USB hub doesn’t supply enough power. Avoid USB Hubs: If you’re plugging the USB drive into a USB hub, try plugging it directly into one of your computer’s USB ports instead. It’s possible that one particular USB port on the computer is dead. Plug It Into a Different USB Port: Try unplugging the external drive and plugging it into a different USB port on your computer. If you’re using a larger drive, ensure it doesn’t have its own power switch or power cable you need to connect. Power On the Drive, if Necessary: Some external hard drives have their own power switches or separate power cables. Sure enough (and it took me a LOT of tries to catch the window, it’s SO FAST), it was this dang office background task handler.If you don’t see the drive in the Disk Management window at all, try these troubleshooting steps: Well I eventually had to use Xsplit Broadcaster to RECORD MY SCREEN until this thing popped up again, then replayed the video trying to pause it at the right moment to see what the program was. I looked in my programs and features under the control panel, and when I saw that two programs had updated about the same day this problem appeared – League and Microsoft Office – I had a sneaking suspicion that Office was the culprit. I’ve noticed this program instantly pop up and disappear several times a day, and not only was the popping up annoying already, it was MINIMIZING MY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS DURING MATCHES!!!!! I was *fairly* certain that this wasn’t malware or a virus as I’ve been EXTREMELY careful about those sorts of things, and windows defender hasn’t found any threats ever on my computer, even after this problem started appearing. ps1 file and if the popups return, run it. To verify from the command line, run the Query again and notice the user is now: SUCCESS: The parameters of scheduled task “\Microsoft\Office\OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration” have been changed.
Schtasks /Change /TN \Microsoft\Office\OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration /RU SYSTEM \Microsoft\Office\OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistrationĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe This task initiates Office Background Task Handler, which updates relevant Office data. Schtasks /Query /TN \Microsoft\Office\OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration /XML ONE Since this may have to be run after every update until Microsoft permanently sets it to run under SYSTEM, you can do the following from the command line: