Need cmd to come up with the tool bar/name bar

[Chad Harris]

On an XP Pro SP2 box, until a couple weeks ago, when I brought up the cmd
prompt by typing cmd in the run box, I always got XP''s cmd prompt aka dos
emulator with a name bar and right clicking on it gave me tools to configure
it's appearance and functions. I no longer get this, and I am not using cmd
in full screen mode.

I can see it by right clicking the minimized cmd on my task bar, using
properties or I can use edit from that right click context, but I want the
name bar back. When I go to the right click context>properties and click
normal window it should restore this but it doesn't.

That is when I right click defaults or properties and click on the options
tab>display options>
window (instead of full screen) it doesn't correct this.

Any suggestions or a regedit to fix this?

Best,

Chad Harris
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[Wesley Vogel]

cmd.exe might be corrupt.

Try this.

Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache
Double click on cmd.exe there and see if it opens different than typing cmd
from the Run box.

Typing cmd from the Run box opens C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe.

If it does, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32 locate cmd.exe and drag it to
your desktop. Windows File Protection will replace the moved cmd.exe with a
copy from C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache delete the copy that's on your
desktop.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Chad Harris]

Wes--what a neat idea. I didn't think of this and while I urge SFC all the
time with Mark Liron's tweak
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
to run it to include SP install files and in the situations when so many
people don't have an XP CD, you got me to look harder at what is in
dllcache.

Of course it worked and I suppose cmd.exe was corrupted. I wonder if there
was any corresponding registry subkey that could have been fixed also.

As always thanks,

Chad Harris
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[Wesley Vogel]

Chad,

These are the keys related to cmd.exe that I know of.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%SystemRoot%_System32_cmd.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\cmd.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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