DOS COMMANDS

[James]

Hello I have a problem where by I go into CMD, and then
use something like PING,TELNET,TRACERT or anything and
they are not recognised. There not deleted as I can go
into the diretory where they reside (C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32)
from within DOS. They all work but if I run them from
anywhere else i.e. C:\ I get its not recognised anywhere...

Any suggestions would be appreciated..

James

 

[Alan Illeman]

Hello I have a problem where by I go into CMD, and then
use something like PING,TELNET,TRACERT or anything and
they are not recognised. There not deleted as I can go
into the diretory where they reside (C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32)
from within DOS. They all work but if I run them from
anywhere else i.e. C:\ I get its not recognised anywhere...

Any suggestions would be appreciated..

James

Right-Click on 'My Computer', select Properties, select
Environment Variables - and check the system 'path'.
It should have at least these sections (separated by a
semicolon):
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hello I have a problem where by I go into CMD, and then
use something like PING,TELNET,TRACERT or anything and
they are not recognised. There not deleted as I can go
into the diretory where they reside (C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32)
from within DOS. They all work but if I run them from
anywhere else i.e. C:\ I get its not recognised anywhere...

Any suggestions would be appreciated..

Hi

Most likely some rough 3rd party installer have changed the registry
value type for the path from "REG_EXPAND_SZ" to "REG_SZ", more about
this and how to fix it here:

http://home.comcast.net/~stewartb/cmdprompt.html#6