Unable to run "ping" from command prompt

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Pacala

I am currently unable to run certain programs from the
command prompt. Pretty much anything other than simple
directory navigation stuff has to be run from their
locations. For example, the "ping" and "ipconfig" commands
have to be run from \winnt\system32\. This is happening
even though the \winnt\system32\ directory is listed in
the system environment variables.

How could I correct this?
 
Control Panel|System|Advanced|Environment Variables|System Variables and
make sure that "Path" has
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%
at least somewhere in the string.

Else check that "Path"
found at
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
is a type Reg_Expand_Sz string and not type Reg_Sz
 
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