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Asked: 2021-11-17T09:40:30+00:00 In:

Stop C;\WINDOWS\System32\Cmd.Exe On Boot

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When I boot computer c;\Windows\System32\cmd.exe loads and then minimizes, How can I stop this

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    1. You might also run MSCONFIG and click the ‘startup’ tab and see if what’s loading there. Could be some old dos program.

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    2. 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.

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