ipconfig running at startup


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
       #1

    ipconfig running at startup


    This may be nothing, but I've never seen it in previous OSes or on my Win7 x86 laptop. While the OS is starting up, one of the last things that happens is a DOS box pops up for less than a second -- barely enough for me to see the title -- and goes away again. It appears to be running ipconfig, but I can't see anything in the DOS box itself so I don't know what modifiers, if any, are on it. This is a relatively new Win7 install, and there's not much in terms of software on it -- certainly nothing that I wasn't running on XP. It's just odd behavior, and I worry that it might be something wrong, but I haven't found any mention of it happening to anyone else. Any thoughts?
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  2. jav
    Posts : 713
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86 SP1
       #2

    can you press start
    Write Msconfig
    Go to Startup tab
    and post screen shot
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  3. aem
    Posts : 2,698
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
       #3

    Also check

    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

    Is it listed in that location?
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  4. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    sorry, should have mentioned


    I should have mentioned that I checked both msconfig and hklm...run/hkcu...run and there's nothing that explicitly calls out for ipconfig to run. I will post screenshots of both shortly to see if anyone knows of a program that is running that is likely to call ipconfig.
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Enterprise x64
    Thread Starter
       #5


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  6. Posts : 1
    win7
       #6

    Just thought I would add to this that....

    1. I have noticed the same thing

    2. I have checked Autoruns, and there is no reference to Ipconfig anywhere.

    Not sure it is doing any harm, though!

    Graham
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  7. Posts : 11,840
    64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
       #7

    Disable everything but your A/V and Firewall, then reboot....
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