error in logging into cli via cmd

Hi I have had a hard time using the balenaCloud and am uncertain as this is the second 6th attempt to figure it out. I appreciate any advice one might be able to give regarding this.
below is what I have been given as feedback from my system, please let me know if you guys have any suggestions. Best regards!

C:\Users\scott>balena login && balena push HAL1 --source path/to/my-project
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Logging in to balena-cloud.com
? How would you like to login? Web authorization (recommended)
Connecting to the web dashboard
Error: spawn cmd ENOENT
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:190:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:362:16)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)
at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:219:9)

HI Scott
It looks to me like balena cli fails to start a browser which it wants to use to authenticate you.
Is the default browser available on your system ? Otherwise you could use a different method to authenticate:
calling balena login --help will give you some hints…