Program do not start

[sdf]

Hi,

I have this issue recently on most of my Windows 2000 servers. When I try to
start any application, be it Windows Explorer, Notepad, Task Manager, cmd or
anything, it just will not start.

For example, I try to start cmd. After starting it, nothing happens. I can
see the process running in the Task Manager using a remote program and I can
see the cmd process running. But going back to the physical server, there is
no display of the program. The only new application that we installed
recently is McAfee Anti Virus 8.0i.

Does anyone has any similar experience? Is there any tool that I can use to
see which process is killing the server?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I have this issue recently on most of my Windows 2000 servers. When I try to
start any application, be it Windows Explorer, Notepad, Task Manager, cmd or
anything, it just will not start.

For example, I try to start cmd. After starting it, nothing happens. I can
see the process running in the Task Manager using a remote program and I can
see the cmd process running. But going back to the physical server, there is
no display of the program. The only new application that we installed
recently is McAfee Anti Virus 8.0i.

Does anyone has any similar experience? Is there any tool that I can use to
see which process is killing the server?

Thanks in advance.

In an attempt to get a handle on this problem, I would do this:
- Reboot the server, first in Safe Mode, then in Normal Mode,
and try to invoke cmd.exe in each case.
- Use psexec.exe \\YourServer cmd (www.sysinternals.com)
to see if the command processor can be invoked from another
machine.
- Compare cmd.exe with a known good copy on another machine.
- Perform these actions:
* Check if c:\temp.txt exists. If it does, delete it.
* Click Start / Run
* Type notepad c:\temp.txt {OK}
* Press Enter (in response to the invisble prompt about "File not found")
* Check if c:\temp.txt now exists
- Invoke cmd.exe in different ways:
* Via Start / Run
* Via Explorer (it's in %SystemRoot%\system32)
* Via a logon script