Other possibilities..
If it didn't occur in the past and only started to appear recently it could
also be an incomplete Windows update installation (e.g. .NET update)

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"BillW50" wrote in message ...

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