I broke the command line
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Topic: I broke the command line
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: I broke the command line
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 4:29pm
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I get an error saying the program does not exist when I try to run: nslookup tracert shutdown ping The files are there but for some reason it is not detecting them. |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 4:33pm
| type cd %SystemRoot%\System32 then try |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 4:35pm
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better yet, put above into your path statement. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 5:45pm
Thanks. It works now. It used to work without having to do this though. Could it possibly something to do with SP2? |
Mart wrote:Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 5:56pm
| Depends, did it work the last time you tried it before installing SP2 and the first time you tried after installing it? |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 30 December 2004 at 9:11pm
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cmd works on sp2 for me ------------- 
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 31 December 2004 at 6:49am
| It worked until yesterday. |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 31 December 2004 at 9:48am
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Maybe I write in invisble ink, put that path into your PATH statement under environment variables, or just type
path %path%;c:\windows\system32 ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 31 December 2004 at 10:18am
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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 |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 01 January 2005 at 1:41am
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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 ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 01 January 2005 at 7:15am
| It happened to me once, but that was a few years ago on Windows ME... I've never seen it on XP |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 01 January 2005 at 8:57am
Thanks it works now. Is the variable installed with Windows XP in which case some installer could of removed it? |