Over the past several days, I've experienced a problem with a cmd file hanging up. 
I use it to start a service that I prefer not to start automatically on boot. 

Normally when I click on the shortcut, the two commands contained in the file execute 
and the window closes in the blink of an eye. But now, after the commands execute, 
the window doesn't close. I have to force-terminiate.

Also, when I open a DOS window and type Exit, the DOS window hangs and I have to 
force-terminate.

Any idea what could cause this?

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re: dos command file hangs Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Did you make any changes (especially updates) before it stopped working? On Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 10:42 pm, david wrote: >Over the past several days, I've experienced a problem with a cmd file hanging up. >I use it to start a service that I prefer not to start automatically on boot. > >Normally when I click on the shortcut, the two commands contained in the file execute >and the window closes in the blink of an eye. But now, after the commands execute, >the window doesn't close. I have to force-terminiate. > >Also, when I open a DOS window and type Exit, the DOS window hangs and I have to >force-terminate. > >Any idea what could cause this? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dos command file hangs Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm Posted by david (56 messages posted) I haven't installed any software recently. Also, I'm very aggressive at keeping my running processes to a minimum. Process Manager only shows 17 *processes* and no applications running on my system when I close my browser. There's now more to the story... Also in the past couple of days, something has been deleting my boot.ini and autoexec.bat files when I re-boot. A Google search strongly indicated the ASK toolbar, and even IE8, but neither program is installed on my computer. I installed Process Monitor and I was able to capture Services.exe red-handed as it deleted boot.ini and autoexect.bat, and attempting to delete two other read-only files in my root directory!! I did a binary file compare with services.exe from another computer and there are no differences, which would seem to suggest that services.exe is not infected. Various and sundry system scans have turned up nothing. Of course, there's no way to tell yet if this is related to the command file hanging issue but since I have more to go on with the delete issue, I posted my PM log in the Sysinternals Process Monitor forum. We'll see what the folks over there come up with. David On Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >Did you make any changes (especially updates) before it stopped working? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dos command file hangs Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:55 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) I would run a virus and malware scan, sounds like you might have a bug in your system. On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm, david wrote: >I haven't installed any software recently. Also, I'm very aggressive at keeping my >running processes to a minimum. Process Manager only shows 17 *processes* and no >applications running on my system when I close my browser. > >There's now more to the story... >Also in the past couple of days, something has been deleting my boot.ini and autoexec.bat >files when I re-boot. A Google search strongly indicated the ASK toolbar, and even >IE8, but neither program is installed on my computer. > >I installed Process Monitor and I was able to capture Services.exe red-handed as >it deleted boot.ini and autoexect.bat, and attempting to delete two other read-only >files in my root directory!! I did a binary file compare with services.exe from another >computer and there are no differences, which would seem to suggest that services.exe >is not infected. Various and sundry system scans have turned up nothing. > >Of course, there's no way to tell yet if this is related to the command file hanging >issue but since I have more to go on with the delete issue, I posted my PM log in >the Sysinternals Process Monitor forum. We'll see what the folks over there come >up with. > >David > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dos command file hangs Monday, October 5, 2009 at 2:05 pm Posted by david (56 messages posted) I agree, but several different scanners found nothing. Unless someone here happens to have specific knowledge of this strangeness, it's probably best to wait for my query over at the PM forum to play out. I'll update this thread either way. Thanks, David On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 1:55 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >I would run a virus and malware scan, sounds like you might have a bug in your system. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: dos command file hangs Monday, October 5, 2009 at 4:27 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Also note that while windows uses "Services.exe" as a part of the operating system a bug can use the same name and be in a different folder, it is a trick used to fool you sometimes. Also it only loads services, so it might be a service something loaded that is the problem. On Monday, October 5, 2009 at 2:05 pm, david wrote: >I agree, but several different scanners found nothing. > >Unless someone here happens to have specific knowledge of this strangeness, it's >probably best to wait for my query over at the PM forum to play out. I'll update >this thread either way. > >Thanks, >David > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum