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or just create a file called cmd.bat in notepad, with the following text:

cd %SystemRoot%\System32

and save as cmd.bat (on your desktop or something)

Then just open that file instead of cmd.exe
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that's kinda strange though... anything in sys32 or the windows directory for that matter should be able to be called directly without prelude... never seen that happen before
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It happened to me once, but that was a few years ago on Windows ME... I've never seen it on XP
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Originally posted by michael michael wrote:

Maybe I write in invisble ink, put that path into your PATH statement under environment variables, or just type
path %path%;c:\windows\system32


Thanks it works now. Is the variable installed with Windows XP in which case some installer could of removed it?
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