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\Win dows\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