Re: commands in command window not functioning

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From: Marko (Marko_at_mmct.net)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:56:40 -0500

Jason Ryon wrote:

> I know this is very vague, but I recently messed up my command window
> somehow, and I don't know what I did to it, maybe it was a recently installed
> program or something. Anyways, here are the symptoms that I'm getting: when
> I open a command window and try to execute a line of code (for example
> "xcopy"), it says 'xcopy' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file. I know xcopy has worked before on
> this system, and the xcopy.exe program is still located in my system32
> directory. A few other commands don't work either, including 'regedit'.
> Maybe somehow DOS got it's links deleted or something, how do I put them back?
>
> Thanks

right click my computer select properties
advanced tab
environment variables
system variables
check the path, it should be something like
   %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;;
the first one redirects your command to system32

its not DOS btw 

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