If you right mouse and click 'Mark', on a running CMD window, the output will be 'frozen' until you make your selction with the mouse and complete the operation. If the operation is never completed, then the output remains frozen. ^C will abort the operation and the output will continue. A second ^C would abort the program.

Or, if you have enabled "Quick edit" mode, then left-dragging, or even just left clicking the mouse will make a selection and so freeze the output until the operation is completed. Again ^C will abort the operation and unfreeze the output.

In eather case, the title of the window will have the word "Mark" or "Select" prepended to it indicating the state of the terminal session, and hitting the escape key will abort the operation and let the output continue.

This sounds like it might be the cause of your problem. If hitting Escape does not clear the problem, then it's not, and this post is a waste of both our time.

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In reply to Re: control-C to "jumpstart" windows process by BrowserUk
in thread control-C to "jumpstart" windows process by jimt

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