And I see this Window: https://i.imgur.com/rtc0B3o.jpg PLEASE for the love of spock help me get rid of this crap! Why the frack is this opening up every time I start Windows? I tried DDU and it still pops up!
AMD is a well known virus/malicious company. You've been bitten by a great malware there. RIP On topic : It happened to me once. Find from where the setup .exe starts and delete the folder
It's the RadeonInstaller.exe but something is calling it whenever I start Windows. Deleting it stops it but the next time I update the driver the same thing happens again.
Never ever had this, and I had/have radeon cards like 10y now. Check ur system, maybe u have some bug deep inside. And change default temp location maybe. And clear it.
Find and delete all the AMD folders everywhere and disconnect the internet. After that DDU. Then registry cleaners or Ccleaner for cleaning temp and disk garbage. Reboot and install.
@Meccs If that app is scheduled to launch from usual Windows places it can be detected by this tool https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Does it appear in task managers startup tab ? Check also if you can find it in the registry under : hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/runOnce and hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/run hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/runOnce
Download Autoruns and find where it runs on startup. You can search for AMD etc in the tool to quickly locate items.
@Meccs And in case that mysterious app is started by another app you can find the parent app with the help of this tool https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Check task scheduler you find 4 task from amd software, two of them invoke the radeon installer, deactivate them. it happened to me
Still happening after DDU and reinstalling GPU and chipset drivers. AMD has great programmers, spamming widely, always the same bug even after format! Thanks for the finding of these 2 tools @mbk1969 !
Autoruns helped me track down this annoyance. Much thanks, Meccs! Remember to run as administrator and keep poking around. Will also find other useless crap to disable. Tried to do the same with Windows task scheduler before my eyes crossed and gave up. Autoruns is sooo much better.