Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. Type the command net user username /random, but change username to the name of the account. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. A command prompt appears, with a blinking cursor to the right. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.

Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.

Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.

Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. Download and run anti-virus software on your Windows computer to remove any viruses or malware that are causing the CMD error to appear unusually often. Click Start to check the partition for errors. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. In the Check File System window, check the Attempt to fix errors if found option.

This problem starts happening after I clean installed windows 10 on my desktop SSD (Encountered some problems from upgrading from w7 so I formatted my SSD before doing this). I need help stopping the CMD prompt from popping up when it is not needed.

Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does. CMD prompt randomly pops up then disappear.

Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. This is not an issue and can be disabled via task manager.

If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse. Answer (1 of 5): I believe CMD opens to execute startup files on the computer, sometimes for programs which try to start on bootup.

The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

Cmd prompt pops up randomly