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BruceM
Windows XP Pro SP3. I am logged on to the machine as an Administrator. The
problems I describe below were not problems until recently. I have
installed Firefox and Thunderbird recently, but have made no other changes I
can think of. Firefox is now my default browser, but I did not use
Thunderbird, and just now uninstalled it.
The command prompt, including ipconfig, cannot be made to appear, or appears
for at most a couple of seconds. Any of the following cause the Windows
task bar to blank out for a few seconds, as if I had used the Task manager
to shut down the explorer.exe process, except that the task bar returns:
Start >> Run >> cmd
Start >> Run >> cmd.exe
Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt
Locating cmd.exe in Windows\System32, and attempting to start it from there
In all cases it is the same whether I use Enter, click the OK button at
Start >> Run, use the right click menu, or any other options I can think of.
When I go to Start >> Run and type ipconfig or ipconfig.exe and press Enter
or click OK, I see a command prompt window for a few seconds at most
(usually just a fraction of a second). Same thing when I try to run
ipconfig.exe directly from System32.
For both cmd.exe and ipconfig.exe I have tried this syntax in the Run
window:
%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe
I have searched for quite a while, but am now out of options.
problems I describe below were not problems until recently. I have
installed Firefox and Thunderbird recently, but have made no other changes I
can think of. Firefox is now my default browser, but I did not use
Thunderbird, and just now uninstalled it.
The command prompt, including ipconfig, cannot be made to appear, or appears
for at most a couple of seconds. Any of the following cause the Windows
task bar to blank out for a few seconds, as if I had used the Task manager
to shut down the explorer.exe process, except that the task bar returns:
Start >> Run >> cmd
Start >> Run >> cmd.exe
Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt
Locating cmd.exe in Windows\System32, and attempting to start it from there
In all cases it is the same whether I use Enter, click the OK button at
Start >> Run, use the right click menu, or any other options I can think of.
When I go to Start >> Run and type ipconfig or ipconfig.exe and press Enter
or click OK, I see a command prompt window for a few seconds at most
(usually just a fraction of a second). Same thing when I try to run
ipconfig.exe directly from System32.
For both cmd.exe and ipconfig.exe I have tried this syntax in the Run
window:
%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe
I have searched for quite a while, but am now out of options.