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

[Chad Harris]

I rarely (less than 5 times) cross post in years of using this but I wasn't
getting a response in XP general so I tried to pick the most appropriate
alternative.

On an XP Pro SP2 box, until a few 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

 

[David Candy]

You didn't get a reply in general as you didn't bother to specify a problem

 

[Wesley Vogel]

If a message MUST be posted to multiple groups, post a single message and
select all the groups (or type their names manually, separated by commas) in
which you want it to be seen. This is called Crossposting and when used
properly it is *GOOD*.

With Outlook Express...

To send your message to multiple newsgroups on the same news server, in the
New Message dialog box, click the icon next to Newsgroups. In the Pick
Newsgroups dialog box, click one or more newsgroups from the list (hold down
the CTRL key to select multiple newsgroups), and then click Add. You can
choose from all newsgroups or only those you subscribe to by clicking Show
only subscribed newsgroups.

You can send a given message to more than one newsgroup at a time only if
all the newsgroups are on the same news server. To post a message to
newsgroups on other news servers, create a separate message for each news
server.

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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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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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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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Chad Harris]

Robert VA:

Appreciate your trying to help. Sorry if I was misled by title of group and
making some connection to basic dos group that I thought might help my
basically simple problem.
http://www.ggentilejoe.eurobell.co.uk/Text/basic.htm

I'm striving for that good 'ole fashioned David Candy Clarity as in
HKLM_CRYSTAL CLEAR_CANDY_PRECISION R US with the D_Word Value "SAY WHAT?"
I guess it's like the Supreme Court's definition of pornography--ya know it
when ya see it they said.

"Not sure what your problem is anyway. Are you getting a command line
window without the title bar (with the minimize, maximize and close buttons
at the right end)?"

***Absolutely that's right Robert. That's what I want to change. I used to
get it. I can get it with "command" in run box.***

"Are you getting the same context menu right clicking on the title bar that
you get when right clicking on the remainder of the command line window?
What about when you left click on
the icon at the left end of the title bar?"

***YES.***

***When I right click on the command line window interestingly it creates a
paste of the last sentence of text I typed at the command line. Repeat right
clicks on the window repeats the text paste.

When I left click the small icon I get the same thing that I get when you
normally click on the title bar and when I right click on the minimized icon
for the cmd prompt at the task bar***.

"Unfortunately someone thought the BASIC acronym for a language name was
clever."

***Gee who could have done that--the large company at Redmond, Washington
who speaks MSDNese?***

When I type cmd into run box I don't get a name bar from which I can right
click and edit or use properties to change the appearance of the cmd prompt,
but I do get one when I use command in the run box. I tried to state this
clearly. I could upload the image to image shack but if you right click the
BLUE usually title bar at the top of the WINDOW when you type cmd to bring
up dos emulation in XP you can right click it to get the dialogue box I
described. Try it and you'll see.

The dialogue box I refer to from right click the name bar on the cmd prompt
window has tabs:
Options/Font/Layout/Colors. The Options tab would seem to be the place to
change this but it does not for me--(Display Options--Window instead of full
screen.)

Perhaps John Eddy Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator who can be reached at
(e-mail address removed) could change this if some of the regulars on this
group emailed him.
________________________________________________________________________________

MSFT pays big bucks to a bevy of language specialists who draw paychecks at
the Redmond campus including Lili Cheng who is by trade an architect whose
team has been borrowed from MSFT Research to work on interactivity in Vista.
You are identifying a symptom at MSFT that shows up in the Windoz OS with
menus that are hardly intuitive and 6-7 entities named Messenger. I would
address the name ambiguity to the gentlman responsible for administering
these groups and why hasn't anyone?

Lili Cheng's apparently discontinued weblog:

http://raindrop.msresearch.us/users/lilich/default.aspx

Lili Cheng Moved to Vista from MSFT Research:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1808279,00.asp

Tia,

Chad Harris
___________________________________________________________________

 

[Chad Harris]

David--

Ah done thought I did bother to specify a queschun. Ah mean I done tried.

I'm striving for that good 'ole fashioned 'David Candy Clarity' as in
HKLM_CRYSTAL CLEAR_CANDY_LASERESQUE PRECISION R US with the D_Word Value
"SAY WHAT?"

I guess a question is like the U.S. Supreme Court's definition of
"pornography" --ya know it
when ya see it they said--or as Bill Clinton said before they rolled out the
un cleaned dress with the stuff on it--it depends on what your definition of
question is.

Best,

Chad Harris
____________________________________________________

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
You didn't get a reply in general as you didn't bother to specify a problem

 

[Wesley Vogel]

command in Run box opens command.com.
cmd in the Run box opens cmd.exe.
Two different programs.

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[Chad Harris]

I know that Wes. It was cmd.exe that was corrupted, because command opened
with the title bar. But I have a hard time distinguishing between them.
Explanations I have looked up are not clear to me. I notice that command
has C:\DOCUME~1\CHA~1>l (short for Chad) at the prompt. I wonder why?

Tia,

Chad Harris
________________________________

 

[David Candy]

A console window is neither cmd or command. It's only a console window. Any console program runs in it. Cmd and command are ony two. It also isn't a corrupted file as a corrupted file won't run.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Chad,

Is the command prompt window showing off screen maybe?

Command Prompt Properties | Layout tab | Let system position window

There should be two cmd.exe on your machine. Did you read my whole first
post? If cmd.exe isn't corrupted you have some real goofy setting.

command.com uses 8.3 short names, that's one reason not to bother using it.

Truncate = to shorten by or as if by cutting off.

Short File Name (8.3) as opposed to Long file Name.

Windows truncates the file name, if necessary, to six characters and appends
a tilde (~) and a digit. For example, each unique file name created ends
with "~1." Duplicate file names end with "~2," "~3," and so on.

C:\Documents and Settings\Chad
becomes
C:\DOCUME~1\CHA~1

How Windows NT Generates MS-DOS Compatible Filenames
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;99589

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[Judson McClendon]

Programs cmd.exe and command.exe can each have a .pif assigned. If the .pif for cmd.exe
specifies 'full screen', then you would have no blue bar. Try running cmd.exe and then
pressing Alt-Enter. This toggles between window and full screen mode.