Dos screen at end of startup?

[Jeri Zezula]

Hi,

I have a stand alone computer with windows 2000 operating system. I recently
had to have the hard drive reformatted and windows reinstalled.

Now when I start up, after my wallpaper comes on, I get a small blank dos
screen with the title winnt\system32\cmd.exe. Usually it goes away.

I was planning on ignoring it, but now occasionally I get a message "command
has failed" and it stays. If I click out of the message, it all goes away
and the computer seems to work OK.

My repair place is an hour away and a pain to get on the phone. Does anyone
have suggestions on what this is and what to do about it? Dear gateway
wants me to repair Windows???

J

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I have a stand alone computer with windows 2000 operating system. I recently
had to have the hard drive reformatted and windows reinstalled.

Now when I start up, after my wallpaper comes on, I get a small blank dos
screen with the title winnt\system32\cmd.exe. Usually it goes away.

I was planning on ignoring it, but now occasionally I get a message "command
has failed" and it stays. If I click out of the message, it all goes away
and the computer seems to work OK.

My repair place is an hour away and a pain to get on the phone. Does anyone
have suggestions on what this is and what to do about it? Dear gateway
wants me to repair Windows???

J

Get a free copy of AutoRuns from http://www.sysinternals.com,
then run it to see what tasks run at startup time.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have marked your non-native startup tasks with ***. Examine
them, then rename them one at a time to make them ineffective
until you have located the culprit. I know there is a lot of them
but then you have installed a lot of software on your PC!

 

[Gary Smith]

OK, I've done it.....now what? I see the tasks. I'm not a dweeb. This is
what I get. What does it mean?

+ C:\winnt\web\printers\images\start.bat

This looks interesting. What does it do? I don't have any BAT files in
that folder on my system, just images.