command line

[Duncan Idaho]

Windows XP Professional SP1.

When ever I pull up cmd.exe and try to do a ping,
netstat, or other command I get the error, "'ipconfig' is
not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program, or batch file.

What would be causing this?

 

[Paul Russell]

Normally these tools will work without fail. Depends and
more information would be useful (e.g. are you part of a
domain). Things like group policy can restrict these
tools not to run so it's important to understand more
about your environment.

If this is not the case, you have possibly environmental
issues (e.g. path to the files not established) or worse
yet the files were removed.

can you go to \windows\system32 and try ping?

 

[philip ashley]

check the registry here

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment

these keys should have the type REG_EXPAND_SZ

ComSpec, Path, windir

also check the data in the path key is correct

hth

philip ashley