When I boot computer c;\Windows\System32\cmd.exe loads and then minimizes, How can I stop this Thanks
mmm a trawl via google offers quite a few interesting ideas about this one. Some suggest (presuming the system boots OK otherwise) that somehow the cmd.exe has been included in the "Startup folder" - programes to start when you boot up to desktop.
Suggestions are then to check in that startup folder and see if it is there; and if so delete it.
Others seem to suggest if may be a nasty, a virus of some sort...
This post is one of several "out there (Skully)"
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/sta...
I'd be inclined to download a few cleaner utils and see what they fix...
ccleaner from:
http://filehippo.com/download_cclea...
Malwarebytes - freebie version:
http://filehippo.com/download_malwa...
Adwcleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/dow...
Junkware removal tool:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/dow...
When you install each utility - do NOT opt for automatic or custom installation. Opt to "manually" install it. Then observe carefully what tick boxes are "ticked/checked" and uncheck them all - apart from the utility itself. You do NOT want to install "useful" browser add-ons, nor change your home page; nor change your search engine and so on. All you want to install is the actual utility itself. Just about every utility these day offers to "give you useful extras" - which you do not need. Decline any and all of them.
And one other utility - a Kaspersky anti-virus rescue disk:
http://support.kaspersky.co.uk/4162
Download the ISO file; save and then burn it to a DVD. Boot up with that DVD.
The system will boot into a Linux variant (perfectly safe); go on-line to update its virus definitions; then will scan the system fully - and ideally/hopefully clean out anything nasty it finds. It loads itself in RAM and the hard drive is merely a resource for the Linux based OS to use - in this case scan. You do NOT install it - even if you see the option to do so; simply boot up with the DVD and run the whole show that way. This disk will find things that can hide away once windows has booted up; but as windows is "not" booting when you run the Kaspersky DVD - they have no-where to hide...
Once it's finished close out, remove the DVD and boot as normal to your windows OS.
It "may"not be anything at all in terms of nasties/virus etc.; but who knows... Worth at least to clean out as per the utilities suggested above; and then if you're inclined run the Kasperksy disk too.
All the above utilities are free; are regularly recommended here; and the download sites are clean and safe thus far.
You might also run MSCONFIG and click the 'startup' tab and see if what's loading there. Could be some old dos program.
This one is really quite odd and there are a lot of hits about it; from XP through to win-7. Not something ever I'd heard of before, let alone had it happen for me (fortunately...).