How to stop the Office Background Task Handler process for good

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Recently,Office usershave reported a strange blank pop-up that appears and closes after a few seconds. While the pop-up itself is not harmful in any way, it can be annoying. The pop-upwindowis caused by a background executable program called Office Background Task Handler and shows the following location as the file path:

“C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe”

If you are annoyed with this pop-upwindowas well, here are a couple of solutions to stop OfficeBackgroundTaskHandler.exe pop onWindows.

How to prevent office background task handler exe pop-ups

1. Update Microsoft Office

2. Run office Background Task Handler as Administrator

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3. Disable Office Background Task Handler from Task Scheduler

4. Change User or Group for Office Background Task Handler

That’s it. Close the Task Schedulerwindowand that should resolve the annoying pop-up.

How to stop the Office Background Task Handler process for good#

How to prevent office background task handler exe pop-ups#

1. Update Microsoft Office#

2. Run office Background Task Handler as Administrator#

3. Disable Office Background Task Handler from Task Scheduler#

4. Change User or Group for Office Background Task Handler#

5. Disable Windows Office Telemetry#