CMD popups in HP laptop 15s-fq2036ns

[Bohosul01]

Since I bought my laptop, I have been seeing CMD popups in startup, so I have installed gpedit.msc and I have enabled process creation monitoring to diagnose the problem.

The day 27/09/2021 at 15:32:43, svchost created a cmd.exe process. After that, cmd created two other processes: at 15:32:43 it created conhost.exe process and at 15:32:44, cmd created HpHwDiag.exe (the fith starting from the bottom).

These are the system logs, I know they contain personal information but I don't mind.

How can I fix it?

 

[britechguy]

All I can tell you is that it is not unusual, at all, to see Command Prompt sessions pop up during start up, at times.

Most times what they're doing occurs so quickly that you never see them, but there are times when things slow down and you do. I don't see them every time I boot, but I do see them on occasion on my machines, and have always seen this occur for decades on Windows machines.

In my opinion, there's nothing to be fixed if nothing is hanging and those windows close gracefully on their own.

 

[axe0]

If you want to identify what is causing it, you could try a clean boot, i.e. disabling all startup items and third-party services and re-enabling them one by one to identify which is introducing this cmd. Note that this is a temporary solution because once you install new software they may introduce this cmd pop-up you see and you're back to square one. Another note, you may have to disable multiple services/startup items. On my old laptop there are up to 10 cmds showing up at startup.

I agree with britechguy that there is nothing to fix here because it's normal behavior. If you want to address it regardless then open task manager (press ctrl + shift + esc keys simultaneously, this is a shortcut), go to startup tab and disable all items. Next in msconfig (press Windows key + r, type msconfig and press enter), go to services tab and check Hide all Microsoft services (important! Accidentally disabling a Microsoft service could prevent Windows from booting) and uncheck all other services, now reboot. From there enable one service or one startup item in task manager and see whether a popup occurs. Enable a new item then reboot and see whether a popup occurs again, continue this until all items/services are enabled again and note which service/startup item shows the popup. As britechguy mentions you may not always see them so you may have to repeat this process a few times.

 

[britechguy]

As britechguy mentions you may not always see them so you may have to repeat this process a few times.

And, when doing a clean boot, what is enabled versus disabled has a direct impact on what may or may not be seen. These command prompt "pop-up windows" are a direct result of asynchronous processing during startup and depending on what process gets what CPU cycles, and when, different ones may appear during different boot cycles even when nothing has been changed about what is enabled/disabled.

I'm glad that I'm not alone in stating that these things appearing during boot is a normal and expected behavior.