hello,
I think that md usa spybot fans did diagnose the symptoms of this issue correctly.
But there appears to be an issue with the command.com and/or the cmd.exe on the affected computers.
Let's try another approach to eliminate the symptoms of this issue:
- boot the computer normally
- when the first error messages about the command.com appear open the taskmanager with ctrl+alt+del and then choosing the taskmanager
- terminate the explorer.exe
- then choose file - new task
- enter the path to Spybot S&D (default: c:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SpybotSD.exe) to start Spybot S&D
- switch to advanced mode
- navigate to tools - system startup
- click the export button and save the startup report file to a location you can easily find later
- remove all Spybotdelete entries from the startup list
- within Spybot S&D (Processlist) terminate the remaining instances of command.com and cmd.exe (ntvdm.exe) and close the error message windows if they are still present ( you can mark multiple entries while holding the shift and/or ctrl key and terminate them together)
- from the Taskmanager choose File - new task and enter explorer to restart the explorer
- attach the startup report file you saved ealier to your next post
We will require the startup report file to diagnose the cause of this issue. We may also require a complete log file later.