Fix: K-12 Assessment Reports Apps Running in Windows 10 Background

Windows 10 users have been facing the K-12 assessments running in the system background. Developed by the AIR Secure Browser the unauthorized application might be running in your device background too. With this, you cannot start any assessment or log out from any running assessment, so you need to end all the running applications in the background manually through the Task Manager. In this blog, we will teach you how you can check the issue and resolve the problem with K-12 assessment errors in your application like Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Photos running in Windows 10.

Here are the keys terms that are used in this blog:-

K-12

K-12 is a term especially used in education and educational technology in the US, Canada, India, Egypt, South Korea, Philippine, and Turkey. It is a short form for public support like prior collage and school grade. The grade is shown as K (Kindergarten) and starts from 1st to 12th grade when the term counts as 13th grade, which means you are in the first year of college.

K- 12 Assessment

It is an accountable format and SA (Summative assessment) that is a part of the examination for the students who are learning at the end of the year. It provides students to result in the grading system and allows the student to the district to measure how they well learning and teaching required for the students as well as a teacher too.

The AIR Secure Browser

The AIR secure browser is an application for the American Institutes and Research that takes online testing of the student experience and making an assessment with the PC Google Chrome. If you want to maintain top-level security, then you need an AIR Secure test browser and Google Chrome book to do this process.

Here is the Take a Test application in the Windows 10 that create several right environments for taking as follow:-

§  Take a Test clean the clipboard.

§  Students cannot change settings, see notifications, extend their display, or auto-fill features and get updates.

§  Students cannot start or access other applications.

§  Cortana is switched off.

§  Students cannot share, print, save screens unless enabled by the IT administrator or teacher.

§  Students cannot go to other websites.

§  Take a Test shows and nothing else in the application.

K-12 Assessment Found Unauthorized Application Running in the Background

This problem occur because of AIR assessment that is several applications that not allowed running application on the running background.

1) When Windows protector application temporarily disable than follow the given command:-

Stop-Service -Name hvsics -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue                            

2) Disable app prelaunch:-

Disable-MMAgent -ApplicationPreLaunch

3) reset Windows protector application guide:-

Start-Service -Name hvsics -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

4) Disable Prelaunch of Microsoft Edge by setting registry key:-

$registryPath = “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PreLaunch\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge”

$Name = “Enabled”

$value = “0”

New-Item -Path $registryPath -Force | Out-Null

New-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath -Name $name -Value $value -PropertyType DWORD -Force | Out-Null

5)Create scheduled task to enable application prelaunch:-

$A = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute “powershell” -Argument “-Command `”Stop-Service -Name hvsics -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue; Enable-MMAgent -ApplicationPreLaunch;Start-Service -Name hvsics -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;New-ItemProperty -Path `”HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PreLaunch\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge`” -Name `”Enabled`” -Value `”1`” -PropertyType DWORD -Force | Out-Null`””

$revertDate = <Specify a date>

$T = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger -Once -At $revertDate

$P = New-ScheduledTaskPrincipal -UserID “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” -LogonType ServiceAccount -RunLevel Highest

$timespan = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 1

$S = New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries -DontStopIfGoingOnBatteries -DontStopOnIdleEnd -StartWhenAvailable -RestartCount 3 -RestartInterval $timespan

$D = New-ScheduledTask -Action $A -Principal $P -Trigger $T -Settings $S

Register-ScheduledTask DisableAppPrelaunch -InputObject $D

Conclusion The issue is not a life-threating one, but it can severley hinder your work progress. Therefore, it is suggested that you follow the instructions carefully and implement them properly.

 Harry Williams is an inventive person who has been doing intensive research in particular topics and writing blogs and articles on webroot.com/safe and many other related topics. He is a very knowledgeable person with lots of experience.

Source : K-12 Assessment Reports