jco said:
Can someone advice me? for some reason my DOS is not
taking any of my commands, the only one that it accepts is
"DIR", it doesn't take "ping", "netstat", etc....
what do you think the problem is? What should i do to
fix this?
Hi
This is usually caused by two things, either that vital system folders
is missing from your path, or that the value type for the path entry in
the registry is changed from the "REG_EXPAND_SZ" format to "REG_SZ".
Note that sometimes both situations can be present at the same time.
The easiest way to check to see if any of the problems above is
relevant for you, is to open a command prompt and take a look at
the path element in the environment:
1.
Open a command prompt (e.g. select Start\Run in the menu and
then run cmd.exe
2.
Type "path" (without the quotes) and press enter.
As part of the path listing (preferably at the beginning), you should
see the following three folders:
C:\WINNT\System32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;
(where "C:\WINNT" is the folder to you Windows folder)
3.
If you don't see those folders, do the steps in both A) and B) below.
If you see them, but they are containing the environment variable
%SystemRoot% as a literally part of the name and not the actual
windows folder name itself, like this:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\WBEM;
you need to do the steps in B) below.
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A)
Add missing vital system folders like this:
Control Panel - System - Advanced -
Environment Variables
Find PATH under "System variables" and select Edit, add this line at the start:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\WBEM;
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B)
To verify that the registry value for the path is still in
"REG_EXPAND_SZ" format and not "REG_SZ", and how to fix it
if necessary, see this link:
http://home.comcast.net/~stewartb/cmdprompt.html#6