Help! Cmd.com window hangs!!

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lonely brain cell

Hi

Having problems with running cmd.com the window opens but is unuseable
accepting no input from the keyboard. After a long wait an error message
appears "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction .... Close
to terminate" etc.
Interestingly if I run a command that opens the window itself and then
executes such as ipconfig it appears to run ok, but of course it all
happens in a flash and the window closes again.
I am running XP Home SP2 on a Compaq Presario 2138EA with 768MB RAM.

Please help!

Thanks
 
lonely said:
Hi

Having problems with running cmd.com the window opens but is unuseable
accepting no input from the keyboard. After a long wait an error
message appears "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
.... Close to terminate" etc.
Interestingly if I run a command that opens the window itself and then
executes such as ipconfig it appears to run ok, but of course it all
happens in a flash and the window closes again.
I am running XP Home SP2 on a Compaq Presario 2138EA with 768MB RAM.

Please help!

Thanks
Click to expand...

You have viruses and probably other malware on your computer. Here are
cleaning steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Malke
 
Yes of course! Cmd.exe is the file that should run. I was just typing
cmd and it was cmd.com that was trying to run. It appears to have been
created by a old game .... anyway got rid of it now .....

Thanks for all the tips guys .. I should have spotted this one!
 
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