Re: Help! 'Access Denied' on cmd.exe ?

From: John (jmw_2000_at_hotmailDOTcom)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:06:27 -0500

I wanted to let everyone know that I solved the problem. Unfortunately I
was up until 2:00am last night trying to solve it without success. Today I
came home from work with a fresh mind, and decided to try something I should
have done first. I disabled the firewall and NAV. Bingo, cmd.exe in the
system32 directory works.

Further research directed me to Kerio Personal Firewall, where I found in
the Application Security, System Security settings for cmd.exe, the option
"When this application is starting" was set to Deny. Don't ask me how it
got that way. I changed it to Permit and my problems are gone.

Thanks every for your help.

John

"John W" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05ef01c3daf4$589c2790$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> OK. Do I have a Virus (even though I have NAV Pro and a
> Software firewall running, and I am behind a router)?
>
> I do not know how long this has been a problem, but I
> cannot run the XP command prompt (running XP Pro with all
> patches). My login ID is an administrator. It has been
> at least a few months since I last ran cmd.exe.
>
> When I try to run it today (start -> run -> cmd), I get a
> windows box saying I do not have rights (or something like
> that).
>
> I seached the drive for other copies of cmd.exe and found
> one in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache directory. I can
> run that one fine.
>
> I compared the C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\cmd.exe to
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe and they are the same.
>
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache>fc cmd.exe c:\windows\system32
> \cmd.exe
> Comparing files cmd.exe and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CMD.EXE
> FC: no differences encountered
>
> Keeping the cmd session open, this is what happened when I
> moved up the directory and try to run the copy of CMD.EXE
> in the C:\WINDOWS\system32:
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache>cd..
> C:\WINDOWS\system32>cmd
> Access is denied.
>
> How can I fix this problem? Has something hosed my
> system authorization system?
>
> Any tips would greatly be appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John W

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