Here’s a solution to the problem of the command prompt disappearing. I use the command prompt to ping things etc and one day it just started to disappear when I went to start > run > cmd. Out of no where it just started to go away leaving me with a “WTF?” look on my face. Without running cmd I’d run something directly such as “ping japanitup.com” or “ipconfig” and then I tried “regedit” and that didn’t work either. And then out of nowhere I got slapped with the “NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction” whaaaaaaaat theeeee….

Check out this screenshot. NTVDM.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. Doh!

Oh yeah, let me just start NTVDM back up Mr. Windows…. like I know what the hell that is? I did some research on this and found out that NTVDM.exe is. It basically allows you to run Dos programs on Windows NT or XP successfully. It emulates the old school DOS/16-bit operating system to allow older programs to run, such as the command prompt eh?

After driving me nuts for a day I found a solution to this problem. I found it at the webuser forum, credit goes to bricat.

1. Download Killbox from here and save it to your computer. (KillBox is a tool to delete in-use files, if the file is running, KillBox will attempt to end the process (close the running file) and delete it.)
2. Locate the downloaded Killbox and double click killbox.exe
3. Click on Tools, click Delete Temp Files, and click ok.
4. Select the option “Delete on reboot”
5. Now highlight and copy this entire list of file paths below
   • C:\Program Files\MsConfigs\MsConfigs.exe
     C:\Windows\system32\p2pnetwork.exe
     C:\Windows\system32\CMD.COM
     C:\Windows\system32\netstat.com
     C:\Windows\system32\ping.com
     C:\Windows\system32\regedit.com
     C:\Windows\system32\tasklist.com
     C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.com
     C:\Windows\system32\taskmgr.com
     C:\Windows\system32\tracert.com
     C:\Windows\system32\bt.exe
     C:\Windows\system32\z.tmp
     C:\Windows\system32\bszip.dll
6. Go back to Killbox and click “File” on the killbox menu at the top
7. Choose “Paste from clipboard”
8. The entire file path list should now be in the “Full Path of File to Delete” field. To check to see if it’s there you can click on the drop down arrow next to that field and then when you expand it all of the paths above should be listed.
9. Click on the red button with a white X in it. Killbox will now tell you that all listed files will be deleted on next reboot.
10. Click Yes
11. When it asks if you would like to reboot now, click Yes
12. If you get a message that says “PendingFileRenameOperations Registry Data has been Removed by External Process!” you should go ahead and reboot your computer manually.

And that’s it! After you reboot your computer the command prompt should start working as normal.

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