Windows XP SP3 cmd console freezes on exit command when in fullscreen mode

Question

When I do Alt+F4 on pure clean cmd console in fullscreen mode it does exit out of the console process (a disk is working for split a second) but it fails to close the console window after that, so I have frozen computer. The operating system seems to run normally under that, but I cannot do anything on the computer then since all I got on screen is a dead console, it doesn't react to any key combinations, only thing that I can do then is just hard restart by holding power button several seconds.

Have you any idea what's going on ? This is on my laptop and I never used full screen console before here so I don't know what I might done to have this. I have run some 'optimization' reg's and cmd's here to disable some services, but now I don't know which setting might it be.

edit: originally I wrote that the system was sp2, it is actually sp3

edit2: It behaves strangely on entering full screen too. For some seconds I'm presented with black screen, it looks like frozen, but after a while content do show. But on end if I forget to go out of full screen before exit I got situation of no return.

Answer 1

To begin with, Alt+F4 is not how to exit a Command Prompt, full screen or otherwise.

Instead, type exit and it should quit!

However, from re-reading your question, it looks like you may have bigger/unrelated issues. I am not sure the exact cause, but, I would try an upgrade of your graphics drivers as the first thing (as I previously have seen some issues that seem a little familiar).