When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just flashes. If
I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be able to use IPCONFIG.
How do I get the dialog box to stay?

TIA!

"JustUs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just flashes.
> If
> I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be able to use
> IPCONFIG.
> How do I get the dialog box to stay?
>
> TIA!

Easy, you run it from a command prompt, like other command line utilities.
At Start, Run, type cmd. This opens a command prompt - which by the way,
is not DOS.

Here, type ipconfig. The results will stay visible.

HTH
-pk

JustUs wrote:
> When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just
> flashes. If I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be
> able to use IPCONFIG. How do I get the dialog box to stay?

Uhm...

Start button --> RUN --> type in:

CMD

--> Click OK. Type your ipconfig command in there.

Or...

Start button --> RUN --> type in:

CMD /K ipconfig /all

--> Click OK.

'ipconfig' is a pure command line utility. There are hundreds of these.
'msconfig' is a GUI utility. There are hundred of these.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:35:00 -0700, JustUs
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just flashes. If
>I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be able to use IPCONFIG.
>How do I get the dialog box to stay?


If you go to Start | Run and enter *any* command-line command, the
command will run. When the command completes, it normally closes, and
when it closes, it closes the CMD window along with it.

If you want to run such a command and have the CMD window stay open,
you need to begin by opening the CMD window. Go to Start \ Run and
type CMD. *Then* enter the command you want (in your case IPCONFIG) in
the CMD Window. Now when it IPCONFIG completes, since it wasn't the
one who opened the CMD window, it doesn't shut it.

MSCONFIG is an entirely different matter. It's not a command-line
command, but an application that runs in a GUI. There is no CMD window
for it to shut down.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Thanks you three - Duh! I knew that :/

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:35:00 -0700, JustUs
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just flashes. If
> >I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be able to use IPCONFIG.
> >How do I get the dialog box to stay?
>
>
> If you go to Start | Run and enter *any* command-line command, the
> command will run. When the command completes, it normally closes, and
> when it closes, it closes the CMD window along with it.
>
> If you want to run such a command and have the CMD window stay open,
> you need to begin by opening the CMD window. Go to Start \ Run and
> type CMD. *Then* enter the command you want (in your case IPCONFIG) in
> the CMD Window. Now when it IPCONFIG completes, since it wasn't the
> one who opened the CMD window, it doesn't shut it.
>
> MSCONFIG is an entirely different matter. It's not a command-line
> command, but an application that runs in a GUI. There is no CMD window
> for it to shut down.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:36:01 -0700, JustUs
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Thanks you three - Duh! I knew that :/


You're welcome. Glad to help.


>"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:35:00 -0700, JustUs
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >When I type in "ipconfig" in Run - Open, the CMD dialog box just flashes. If
>> >I type in "msconfig" the dialog box stays. I need to be able to use IPCONFIG.
>> >How do I get the dialog box to stay?
>>
>>
>> If you go to Start | Run and enter *any* command-line command, the
>> command will run. When the command completes, it normally closes, and
>> when it closes, it closes the CMD window along with it.
>>
>> If you want to run such a command and have the CMD window stay open,
>> you need to begin by opening the CMD window. Go to Start \ Run and
>> type CMD. *Then* enter the command you want (in your case IPCONFIG) in
>> the CMD Window. Now when it IPCONFIG completes, since it wasn't the
>> one who opened the CMD window, it doesn't shut it.
>>
>> MSCONFIG is an entirely different matter. It's not a command-line
>> command, but an application that runs in a GUI. There is no CMD window
>> for it to shut down.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>>

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