I did a scan with Malwarebytes and found some adware had found its way in. Removal of the adware files seems to have fixed my issue.

Did that fix the issue? My issue corresponds to the following message in the event viewer:

The server {79701C41-C345-47EC-B57C-02C39A698A0D} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout

I'm having a similar issue. Every 30-60 seconds a small window will flash in the corner of the screen. It comes and goes to quickly to identify what it is. I tried disabling all the non-microsoft...