i tried your suggestion Arazel and it helped pinpoint the issue. as for the malware scan you suggested... i dont think its gonna be necessary since the issue itself was coming from my antivirus which is Avira. im reinstalling it and will mark as solved if it stops
thanks for the reply
the process was OpenWith.exe and i researched a bit about it and i think something in my system is triggering it on occasion though i cant figure out which process/application is doing it. i tried using the safe boot option in msconfig to test if it would still pop out, and...
so i need a little help getting rid of this issue thats been happening for awhile now. a few days ago this pop up started appearing on startup and then it opens again after some time has passed. there doesnt seem to be any condition where i can predictably recreate it, it just pops up...