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Char Jackson typed:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:51:11 -0400, Leala
wrote:

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\Wind ows\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.

I think you left out a few too many details.

Hi Leala! CMD window pops up for anything that won't run under a GUI
window. Things like some applications, scripts, batch files, etc. And
the default is to close the CMD window once whenever is running is done.

Also the Startup folder doesn't show all startups. As there are also
places in the Windows registry which will run things at bootup too. So
you are not seeing everything from the Startup folder alone. Also you
won't likely find CMD.EXE in any of these places. As Windows knows by
the file extension that CMD.EXE needs to be loaded to run whatever that
is.

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2