I start my windows XP professional laptop and by default I see the cmd
window popping up and it goes after a while. Can you give me a fix to
turn this off so that I do not see this cmd window on start of machine

Thanks.

Hello Padmaja,

This forum deals with questions that directly relate to Windows Desktop Search.

I would suggest asking your question here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

Also, if your computer is part of a network, I would suggest asking the network administrator about the cmd window. This often occurs at network signon as network administrators tend to write scripts that execute in teh cmd window at log-on.

Paul Nystrom - MSFT