Aps open at random

[Flatcat47]

Hello again
Sometimes aps seem to open all by themselves. A big culprit is Dreamweaver, also Free Address Book by GAS. Sometimes I think I have touched the screen while I am setting the laptop aside, but I don't know that for sure.
I have been working out recording my band live with the video portion of the camera ap. Last night at three or so times the recorder stopped; also various aps appeared to open themselves. I am pretty sure no one bumped the computer, which was sitting on a barrel.

Before I go to Malwarebytes for a multi-scan process for bugs and such, is this a standard kind of a win 10 thing and fixable?

Thanks

 

[Colif]

Malewarbytes would be my 1st choice, as apps opening themselves randomly isn't normal. Try scanning with this as well if your only AV is Defender - https://www.bitdefender.com.au/solutions/free.html - can also try Hitman Pro for a 3rd opinion

What might happen is if you shutdown PC with one of these programs running , Win 10 will now reload them at startup again (it does it to be helpful). I generally just close everything at shutdown. This doesn't explain what you are seeing though.

 

[Flatcat47]

OK, thanks for input. I'll go to Malwarebytes or Hijack This! or whatever it is called these days and see if they can pull this out of the neural webs.

Flatcat47