- Full screen Command Prompt window opens When a particular USB flash drive is installed
- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 14th, 2006
I have an old 16MB Kangaroo Disk On Key usb flash drive. When this drive
(and only this drive) is installed, a full screen command prompt window
opens. Typing exit will return to desktop or whatever window was open, and
I can view and access files on it. It acts exactly like a right click on
any drive, and selecting the "Open Command Window Here" option. The drive
does *not* do this on any other PC. I have tried formatting it,
uninstalling it, and searched the registry until I am blue in the face. All
other usb flash drives do not do this on this PC. Any ideas?
- Posted by David Candy on March 14th, 2006
Do you have a hidden inf file on that drive.
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- Posted by Uwe Sieber on March 14th, 2006
Walt Irvine wrote:
When the fullscreen Command Prompt appears, press Alt+Return
to get it to box mode.
Then check out the process tree in Sysinternals ProcessExplorer
what the parent process of the prompt is. Maybe it helps to
discover what is going on...
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilitie...sExplorer.html
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on March 14th, 2006
Walt,
This problem occurs when you alter the "Drive" entry via File Types dialog,
to add a "Command Prompt here" or "Print Directory" feature for folders.
(example)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321186
Resolution:
Click Start/Run and type this command to fix this problem:
(Tip from David Candy)
regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
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Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
"Walt Irvine" <wirvine@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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I have an old 16MB Kangaroo Disk On Key usb flash drive. When this drive
(and only this drive) is installed, a full screen command prompt window
opens. Typing exit will return to desktop or whatever window was open, and
I can view and access files on it. It acts exactly like a right click on
any drive, and selecting the "Open Command Window Here" option. The drive
does *not* do this on any other PC. I have tried formatting it,
uninstalling it, and searched the registry until I am blue in the face. All
other usb flash drives do not do this on this PC. Any ideas?
- Posted by David Candy on March 14th, 2006
For a single USB drive where others do not do this?
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- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on March 14th, 2006
I sure thought about this at first. But Walt may be facing the same problem
with any other drives, or may not have noticed this problem yet?
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For a single USB drive where others do not do this?
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- Posted by Ramesh, MS-MVP on March 14th, 2006
Umm. I did miss that line. If that's *truly* the case, then no point in
registering shell32.
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For a single USB drive where others do not do this?
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- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 14th, 2006
I have explorer configured to show all files. Only what I expect to see is
on the disk.
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Do you have a hidden inf file on that drive.
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- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 14th, 2006
The parent is explorer.exe. The command line reads "cmd.exe" /k "cd E:\".
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- Posted by Uwe Sieber on March 15th, 2006
Never seen that before...
Does the drive appear as 'Local disk' or as 'Removable disk'
in the Windows Explorer?
Had you have a look at the drives auto play settings?
(right click the drive -> Properties -> Tab 'Auto Play')
Have you searched in the registry for "cd E:\"?
What happens when you change the drive letter in the
Disk Management?
Desktop -> right click 'My Computer' -> 'Manage'
'Disk Management'
Right click on the drive -> 'Change Drive Letter and Paths'
Greetings from Germany
Uwe
- Posted by David Candy on March 15th, 2006
Right click it and another. What is the menus.
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- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 15th, 2006
Drive appears as Removable disk in explorer. Auto Play is set for "Take no
Action". Changing the drive letter from E to F brought up the full screen
command prompt again "F:\>". Changing back to E did the same thing. I've
searched the registry for "cmd.exe /k, and found entries under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Directory/shell/cmd/command,
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Drive/shell/cmd/command,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Classes/Directory/shell/cmd/command,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Classes/shell/drive/cmd/command,
HKEY_USERS/(userid)/Software/Classes/Directory/shell/cmd/command, and
HKDEY_USERS/(userid)/Software/classes/Drive/shell/cmd/command. I associate
these with the "Open Command Window Here" option when a directory or drive
is right clicked in Explorer.
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- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 15th, 2006
When it or another usb drive is right clicked, identical menus appear as
follows: Expand, Open Command Window Here, Search, Explore, Open, Browse
With Paint Shop Pro 7, Autoplay, Scan for Viruses, Sharing and Security,
Format, Eject, Cut, Copy, Rename, Properties.
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Right click it and another. What is the menus.
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- Posted by David Candy on March 15th, 2006
Ramesh is probably right then.
Type in Start Run
regsvr32 /i shell32
The only puzzling thing is why all aren't doing it.
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- Posted by Walt Irvine on March 16th, 2006
Well, that did it. Chalk it up to another unexplained Windows event 
Thanks to all for taking the time to help.
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Ramesh is probably right then.
Type in Start Run
regsvr32 /i shell32
The only puzzling thing is why all aren't doing it.
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