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After opening the cmd.exe as usual, I suddenly see a weird thing: every output of any command that I enter that is related to my dev environment (ruby, git) in the cmd window is prefixed with the text: flashplayerplugin.

Interestingly, regular windows commands such as ver, dir work normally.

I uninstalled any flash plugins I had and restarted Windows, I also ran CCleaner cleaning any garbage I had and fixing registry entries. Didn't help.

See screenshot here:

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Any idea what's going on and how to fix it?

My setup: Windows 7 on laptop.
My dev environment: RailsInstaller (Ruby 1.93, Rails 3.2), Git 1.7, RubyMine

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    Try and enter the command set to list all the environment variables. Does the problem occur with Powershell?
    – Pincopallino
    Mar 17, 2013 at 9:36
  • SET works fine, no hint of any unusual params here. Powershell works fine as well
    – MikeMarsian
    Mar 17, 2013 at 10:26
  • Have you tried an sfc /scannow for checking the system files?
    – Pincopallino
    Mar 17, 2013 at 11:07
  • Ran sfc /scannow - no errors were found
    – MikeMarsian
    Mar 17, 2013 at 14:44
  • Any chance you're using chocolatey? One thing I did today (which may be totally unrelated) is do a cinst mongodb
    – Josh Kodroff
    Mar 20, 2013 at 23:11

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After burning almost a day on this I eventually found a solution:

Using PowerGrep (grep for Windows) I found that I had 2 installations of Flash plugin player: 32 bit version (which I of course removed), and 64 bit version, of which I had no idea. Uninstalling the 64bit version and restarting the system fixed the issue.

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  • I've uninstalled the Flash player that installed yesterday, guessing that's the 64-bit version. Where did you find the 32-bit version and how did you remove it? Just deleted a folder? I don't see an entry in Programs for it.
    – Tom
    Mar 19, 2013 at 13:16
  • I used Power Grep to search for flashplayerplugin string in files - that's how I found it (don't remember the exact location, but I remember it was under Macromedia folder). Regarding the uninstall, it had uninstall executable in the same place where the flash was located.
    – MikeMarsian
    Mar 19, 2013 at 13:23
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The problem for me was a registry key added by AirFoil. Following the solution here worked: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15467295/java-sdk-manager-crashes-with-flashplayerplugin-in-the-input

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  • Excellent note!
    – sshow
    Apr 3, 2015 at 6:40
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I hate to leave this dead end for anyone else who comes to this question, but Mike Marsian's solution didn't work for me and I wound up using a System Restore to get me back to yesterday morning (and for once System Restore worked). I think my problem might have been that Chrome has its own copy of Flash. I actually discovered the problem wasn't unique to me via a conversation on Twitter with SourceTree if that provides any leads for people.

For anyone who winds up here, there's a similar Stack Overflow thread.

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