explorer.exe ask me for microsoft account passw.

dalchina said:

You haven't - what?

Tried that?

Or do you mean you've done nothing to protect yourself- in which case go straight into self-castigation mode... and repent.

apart the sarcasm when i has been in trouble since windows 10,
with my very loved windows xp was real another history,
no either restore point
or image disk, done by a free non shareware sw, has been helpful
so i decided to give up
but to return in topic
i hope that someone here will find the solution
if any is available
or if this is the new policy of ms to force also win 10 users to have only a ms acct to sing in, as already for win 11,
we all have to rise up our hands
cheers

Try3 said:

You do not seem to have done what I suggested.
It might solve your problem.


Denis

here there are attached screenshoots of the logon tab of autoruns just done
i do not see anything untrusted , but i uploaded here to yr expert examination
waiting for yr helpful response
thxs so much in adv
cheers

Try3 said:

I suggest you do it again but this time go to the Options menu and hide
- Empty locations
- MS entries

You need to examine each command in the results.
If it is running, stop it and restart it to see if it causes a login attempt.
I think you should start with that cmd.exe
And those three smartcard entries might also be a candidate for wanting you to login, I would have thought.

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Denis

here it is what you required
you write.
"stop it and restart it"...:
how...?...i see only the option -delete- if i right click on it....
if it is enough to unflag and then to re-flag the entries just done with all of them...and nothing happens

and also you are only focused to the first part of this issue...as for dalchina i invite you to read carefully also the second and most important part...:
is clearly written in my first post:
going on and making my investigations i discover that if i shut down in task manager the explorer.exe process the desktop consequently disappear and became black and if i start again the process explorer.exe in task manager i got the same image attached asking me for my ms acc. passw., so this behaviour is tied and due to explorer.exe, infact at the winlogon there is the start of this process, so to sum up since some days explorer.exe when started, or at winlogon, or then manually by me in task manager, make appear the image attached asking me for ms acc. passw., the strange thing is that it isn’t blocking, i repeat that i’m able to click the white top left arrow and go suddenly to my desktop…

thxs for yr attn
cheers

Try3 said:

I am suggesting that you use AutoRuns to get a list of things to investigate.
What I am suggesting is that you note each item that AutoRuns says is running and investigate each one.
I am not suggesting that you unset their checkboxes in AutoRuns [yet].


I should also have mentioned checking what is in your Startup folders

Start-up - All users "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
Start-up - CurrentUser "C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"

Paste those paths, funny symbols and all, into File explorer's address bar to get to them to see what is there.
It's possible that that mysterious cmd.exe you found in AutoRuns is started by an entry on one of these folders.


Denis

so when you write "stop and restart" what you mean...??
i do the search you ask :
Start-up - All users "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
Start-up - CurrentUser "C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
and i attached here the screenshoots

about cmd.exe is in this reg key...:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot
...so maybe is related to safe booting...see:
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot

and again..:
you are only focused to the first part of this issue...as for dalchina i invite you to read carefully also the second and most important part...:
is clearly written in my first post:
going on and making my investigations i discover that if i shut down in task manager the explorer.exe process the desktop consequently disappear and became black and if i start again the process explorer.exe in task manager i got the same image attached asking me for my ms acc. passw., so this behaviour is tied and due to explorer.exe, infact at the winlogon there is the start of this process, so to sum up since some days explorer.exe when started, or at winlogon, or then manually by me in task manager, make appear the image attached asking me for ms acc. passw., the strange thing is that it isn’t blocking, i repeat that i’m able to click the white top left arrow and go suddenly to my desktop…

thxs for yr attn
cheers

Try3 said:

i attached here the screenshoots

So check out that hp application in your startup folder.


Denis

hi and thxs again
checked out...nothing change...

another investigation done is that i'm running on my pc a useful tool:
HiBit Startup Manager

i see that before 08 march 2024, so before this issue, my boot time was 32 sec average
now after 08 march so with this frustrating issue is 42 sec average
the tool has a report divided in 3 sectors: app and startup,drivers,kernel
the 10 sec of more time spent in booting are all in the first one: app and start up
see:

before 8 march:
app and startup 15sec
drivers 9 sec
kernel 8 sec

after 08 march
app and start up 25 sec
drivers 9 sec
kernel 8 sec

hope this helps
thxs so much in adv for yr kind attn and helping
cheers