As of the past few weeks, when I start windows, A CMD window opens and stays open after all the programs and applications launch. I have just been exiting or closing the box, but I have been wondering what would cause it to open in the first place?
I have checked to see what is in start up (and I have been looking for CMD or RUN) but I don't see anything out of the ordinary.
How can I get this to stop?
I have windows 7 Home premium 64.
Answer
if it started suddenly first question would be did you install new software around that time or have thunderstorms etc.
If no new software was installed my first suspicion would be virus. scan with a good av program as well as spybot and malware bytes. If all 3 dont find any thing beyond cookies run scandisk to check the hdd for corruption. Check the system event logs for disk events after that. If more then a few warnings are found, or if errors are found for disk0 then its likely a bad hdd. after that all thats left is the startup items as mentioned by others.
I always start with worst case as its not unusual to catch a dying disk by chance that way ;) If new software was recently installed try uninstalling it and or use a restore point. some hard to fix viruses and odd things like this are repairable that way.
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