PowerShell always crashes after starting laptop

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I am using an Acer Aspire E1-731-4675 laptop which I recently upgraded to Win10 by buying a CD. When I start up it appears to have 5 automated PowerShell tasks that execute. Shortly after starting the laptop (usually less than 30 minutes) a popup always appears saying that PowerShell has stopped and it is sending notification to Microsoft. Other than the 5 automated routines at startup, I am not using PowerShell at all. I am just starting to learn about it. I have already tried installing the latest version of PowerShell and that didn’t stop it. It was doing this before I upgraded from Win8.1 and it has continued under Win10. Is this a common problem with a common solution? Or is the laptop just too old?

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Kenneth,
Welcome to the forum. :wave:t3:

Wow, that’s quite a grandpa of a computer. I’d consider changing that to something more up to date. :wink:

Recently? … to Win10? Windows 10 will soon reach its support end. What did you use before?

That sounds shady. Where did you buy a Win10 CD? :thinking: Usually you buy a licence and download the current version directly from Microsoft. :man_shrugging:t3:

That sounds even more shady. Are you sure it’s been an original Win10 CD?

Ah … I see. :wink:

It seems to bother you now. Why didn’t it bother you before?

No.

No.

But it might be nearly impossible to solve such an issue here in a forum like this. I’d recommend to ask someone you know who knows Windows to actually trouble shoot your Laptop.
I’d start with checking the eventlogs and try to figure out what actually starts PowerShell in the background. You may tuirn on PowerShell script block logging to get even more eventlog entries.

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Just my $.02

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In my experience with Windows, it does not seem normal that you have 5 PS Scripts running at startup especially if this is not a work/corporate system. This would likely mean they are bypassing the standard Execution Policy of PS (which is Restricted meaning you cant run scripts) in some way and you have to ask yourself Why? I would disable the tasks if it were me or a least take a close look at them to see what they are doing. Remember, the bad guys also use PS scripts.
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You asked. “why didn’t it bother me before?” It did. But I didn’t know there was a PowerShell Forum before.

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How did you know now? Haven’t you tried to solve this issue before?