Cmd Prompt Keeps Popping Up
When a command prompt (cmd) seems to hang open, it's likely because a batch file is running that started a program and the program has not exited yet. The suggestions to see what's starting are good, but this is likely why it's happening. Something is starting another program through a batch file and the program is never closing (this COULD be normal behavior depending on what the program does). If this turns out to be something you WANTED running (that starts from the batch file), modify the batch file so that the program uses 'START program.exe' (where program.exe is the program running).–Sep 9 '12 at 20:05. 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.
The issue results in a command prompt window popping up every hour — it may not sound too annoying at first, but if you play a lot of games, it’ll surely annoy you. That’s because if you’re playing a game in full screen and this window pops up, the game will pause which is definitely going to be quite infuriating.
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.
Depending on how it starts, but I'll start with the easy way.Go to Start, type msconfig and press Enter. Select the Startup tab, and click Disable All. Click on Services, and tick the box for Hide Microsoft Services, then click Disable All. Click OK, then reboot. Does the box go away?If yes, then go back into msconfig, and go back to the Startup tab. Enable half the times, hit OK and restart.
Does the box stay away? If yes, repeat this step. If it comes back, then disable half the items you enabled, and rebootIf not, then it is starting up somewhere else, such as a service or a driver or a virus.
Command Prompt Keeps Popping Up In Windows 10
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As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.or read our to learn how to use this site. Thanks, Niweg! I ran the scan and there were no problems detected.I have determined that the cmd popup occurs every hour at exactly xx:37:20 by my computer clock.I run both Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware twice a week (been doing that for years) and have run deep scans with no problems detected.Still no idea what this is. If I could just get a look at what goes on in the cmd window when it pops up, I'd have much better information. Is there anyway to get it to dump to a file or should I setup a screen recorder right before it occurs and then review it?. You didn't say how long this problem has been occurring, but if recently you could try System Restore to before the problem started if you have that enabled.
Also did the problem start shortly after you installed something? That's something to check.I recently experienced little popups in the lower right corner of my screen regarding Facebook. I don't use Facebook and had no idea where the popup was coming from. Finally I noticed a little gear in the corner of the popup, and clicked on it. Turns out that popup was coming from the CHROME browser; something I would've never suspected. Fortunately there's a place there to turn this annoyance off.
So, if you're using Chrome, that's a possibility, although my popups came at irregular intervals, not exactly every hour like yours so YMMV.Good luck. You know I had this issue not long ago, it was related to a driver in my case.Of course when i reinstalled windows 10 after having so many issues with the November update it didnt happen again.It may be related to a config file too, after all windows 10 is more like windows 8 then it is windows 7.There is one way to test that out, set up a second account and use that as your main account for a little bit, just transfer what you need to it and see what that does.Edited by MadmanRB, 06 February 2016 - 10:20 PM.