Path and %SystemRoot% resolving

[Guest]

For a few days now I've been having a weird problem with my laptop running windows XP.
From a command prompt I can not issue commands lilke "ping" and "ipconfig". It complains that command not found although the files are present in C:\windows\system32.
I've looked at my path and the weird thing that I can see is that for whatever reason it doesn't seem to be resolving %SystemRoot%.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>Path
PATH=C:\IXP1200\bin\;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem

although the variable appears to ber resolving properly...
C:\WINDOWS\system32>echo %SystemRoot%
C:\WINDOWS

Any Ideas?

 

[tony]

Had the same problem today. Check if in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment
the value for "Path" is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. Some apps change it to REG_SZ
which
caused that error on my machine. I reimported the value from a backup file.

For a few days now I've been having a weird problem with my laptop running windows XP.
From a command prompt I can not issue commands lilke "ping" and

"ipconfig". It complains that command not found although the files are
present in C:\windows\system32.

I've looked at my path and the weird thing that I can see is that for

whatever reason it doesn't seem to be resolving %SystemRoot%.

 

[Guest]

Tony, I have the same problem, but I don't know to edit this in the registry, can you suggest anything I can do
----- tony wrote: ----

Had the same problem today. Check if in the registry ke
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Sessio
Manager\Environmen
the value for "Path" is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. Some apps change it to REG_S
whic
caused that error on my machine. I reimported the value from a backup file

For a few days now I've been having a weird problem with my laptop runnin windows XP
From a command prompt I can not issue commands lilke "ping" an

"ipconfig". It complains that command not found although the files ar
present in C:\windows\system32

I've looked at my path and the weird thing that I can see is that fo

whatever reason it doesn't seem to be resolving %SystemRoot%

 

[tony]

first create a text file consisting of the following 4 lines:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment]
"Pathnew"=hex(2):43,00


Call the file temp.reg and double click the file to import that value into
the registry.
The imported value is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. Open Regedit and copy the
content of the
original "Path" value to the new value "Pathnew". Rename "Path" to "Pathold"
(or delete it)
and rename "Pathnew" to "Path". Done.

Tony, I have the same problem, but I don't know to edit this in the

registry, can you suggest anything I can do?