Powershell Issue - "powershell.exe This application could not be started. Do you want to view information about this issue?"

Question

Hello,

I'm having a worrisome issue with Windows Powershell. Would you be able to assist me in resolving it?

Upon start up the following dialogue box populated and continues to populate ad nauseum for the entire time that I run my Windows 10 PC. The only changes I've made to my PC that seem as though they could have anything to do with this are that ci Resolve 18 and uninstalled Adobe Premiere Pro, but I don't think that could be causing the issue and also am not sure how to check what might be interacting with Power Shell in any way to cause it.

A dialogue box will populate that says: "powershell.exe This application could not be started." in the dialogue box header and the body states: "This application could not be started. Do you want to view information about this issue?"

When I click Yes it brings me to this web page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install/application-not-started?version=(null)&processName=powershell.exe&platform=0009&osver=7&isServer=0&shimver=4.0.30319.0 an asks me to download a tool to resolve the issue, but after running the wizard it says it's unable to resolve the issue. Clicking No just causes the dialogue box to repopulate again.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

Answer 1

I solved it here, I opened the task scheduler, scheduler library and saw that there was a task that called powershell, programmed to repeat itself continuously. in my case the name of the task was "faka" in yours it may be different. So click on the scheduled tasks and see along the way which one calls PowerShell.

I leave below example images of my case, but I had already solved the problem

Answer 2

Thank you so much! It solved the problem