cmd.exe Window

On 7/30/2012 8:58 PM, tb wrote:

I am using Windows 7 Home Edition SP1, 64-bit.

Every time that I boot up Windows, a cmd.exe window automatically opens
up for just a few seconds and then disappears. I would like to know
what causes that...

These is no cmd.exe in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup, so if anyone knows how to track down what
launches this cmd.exe window I'd be curious to know too.

Look in C:\Windows\winsxs\ for folder(s) containing commandprompt in the
folder name to locate cmd.exe

Some apps load a resident portion using cmd.exe

"tb" wrote in message news:jv7ak5$1im$

I am using Windows 7 Home Edition SP1, 64-bit.

Every time that I boot up Windows, a cmd.exe window automatically opens
up for just a few seconds and then disappears. I would like to know
what causes that...

These is no cmd.exe in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup, so if anyone knows how to track down what
launches this cmd.exe window I'd be curious to know too.

Try running Autoruns to see what's opening at start up.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...s/bb963902
To make the display a bit easier to read set the
'Hide Windows Entries' under options and rescan.

"tb" wrote in message
news:jv7ak5$1im$

I am using Windows 7 Home Edition SP1, 64-bit.

Every time that I boot up Windows, a cmd.exe window automatically opens up
for just a few seconds and then disappears. I would like to know what
causes that...

These is no cmd.exe in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup, so if anyone knows how to track down what launches
this cmd.exe window I'd be curious to know too.

If it was just cmd.exe then it would stay open without automatically
closing. it is being opened by some other startup function and closing
automatically when done.

you listed the path to a user StartUp folder. There is also the common (all
users) StartUp folder as well as 2 locations in the registry, HKLM for all
users and HKCU for the current user where an item can auto launch from.

tb wrote:

I am using Windows 7 Home Edition SP1, 64-bit.

Every time that I boot up Windows, a cmd.exe window automatically opens
up for just a few seconds and then disappears. I would like to know
what causes that...

These is no cmd.exe in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup, so if anyone knows how to track down what
launches this cmd.exe window I'd be curious to know too.

It's a startup program that opens the window, executes command(s), then
closes when complete. Someone mentioned Autoruns, that is good. See
also Winpatrol, it has many tweaks for Windows and makes it dead-stupid
easy to spot and disable or remove startup programs. If you let it run
when Windows starts it will monitor the system for any *new* items that
an installer added and gives you an option to *not* auto-run it. It
catches stuff for me all the time that I don't want to run when Windows
boots, and the software author gave no option in the setup program for
me to choose that or not.

http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

On 30-Jul-2012 20:58, tb wrote:

I am using Windows 7 Home Edition SP1, 64-bit.

Every time that I boot up Windows, a cmd.exe window automatically opens
up for just a few seconds and then disappears. I would like to know
what causes that...

These is no cmd.exe in
c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup, so if anyone knows how to track down what
launches this cmd.exe window I'd be curious to know too.

Do you have an ATI/AMD graphic card?
If yes, that's what the cmd.exe is at startup.

Leala.