|>Wesley, Thanks for the lesson.You're right.Learn something new every day.
There's also a hierarchy involved. There was some malware recently
that installed regedit.com - if you type'd in regedit you got the
malware, if you type'd in regedit.exe you got the right program.
|>"Wesley Vogel" wrote:
|>
|>> The environmental variable Pathext shows a list of file extensions that are
|>> considered to be executable and regulates which extensions do not need to be
|>> typed in a Command or Run window.
|>>
|>> If Pathext is all right and you do not have any malware, you do not need to
|>> type cmd.exe. Typing cmd is good enough.
|>>
|>> PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
|>>
|>> If you have more than one cmd file, XP searches for the extension in the
|>> order listed above. So if you have a file named cmd.com (malware), cmd.com
|>> will try to open before cmd.exe, if no extension is typed.
|>>
|>> --
|>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
|>>
|>> Wes
|>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
|>>
|>> In |>> Mike E <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
|>> > If you are using "run" you need to type "cmd.exe" or you can go to
|>> > "Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt".
|>> > --
|>> > Mike Ellis
|>> >
|>> >
|>> > "Nemisis" wrote:
|>> >
|>> >> I'm running XP Home and for a while now i have been unable to use the
|>> >> command prompt. When i type 'cmd' or 'command' into the run box it just
|>> >> opens a blank box and does nothing. can anyone help?
|>>
