Windows XP MS-DOS Prompt Error

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Peter Olcott

Quite often (now that I applied the security update)
I click on the MS-DOS Prompt, and only get a totally
blank screen. There is no prompt. What is wrong?
and How can this be fixed?
 
Hi, Peter.

I assume you mean Start | Accessories | Command Prompt. I use this "DOS"
window every day (both before and after SP2) and haven't had this all-blank
problem. It's hard to see how SP2 could have affected this, and I haven't
seen anybody else report anything like it.

My best guess is that you need to right-click on Command Prompt, then click
Properties and adjust the settings. You may have made the Command Prompt
screen larger than your actual monitor size, putting the prompt off-screen.
Or, you may have set the background and foreground to the same color; if
that's the situation, the prompt is there, but you can't see it.

Did you make any changes to your Display Properties? Graphics driver? Any
other recent hardware or driver changes?

RC
 
I assume you mean Start | Accessories | Command Prompt. I use this "DOS"
window every day (both before and after SP2) and haven't had this all-blank
problem. It's hard to see how SP2 could have affected this, and I haven't
seen anybody else report anything like it.

My best guess is that you need to right-click on Command Prompt, then click
Properties and adjust the settings. You may have made the Command Prompt
screen larger than your actual monitor size, putting the prompt off-screen.
Or, you may have set the background and foreground to the same color; if
that's the situation, the prompt is there, but you can't see it.

Did you make any changes to your Display Properties? Graphics driver? Any
other recent hardware or driver changes?
Click to expand...

I tried changing the settings and the only thing that
worked was changing from full-screen mode to
a window. Full screen mode still does not work.
Any other ideas? (I prefer full-screen mode). Thanks
 
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