Re: No MS DOS prompt in XP

Were they clean installs or upgrades?

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"gazza boy5" <gazzaboy5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your response.

I find it strange however that having 2 machines both with XP, run from
the
same disk that 1 has the "command prompt" as default in the accessories
folder and the other has not.

Each were installed the same way.

I thought it might have 2 do with the fact that since the machine that
doesnt have it is dual booted, XP isn't on the C drive.
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gazza fl-coatey


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:10:02 -0700, gazza boy5
<gazzaboy5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have installed XP on a dual boot system and I have noticed the MSDOS
prompt
is missing from the start -> all programs -> accessories menu. However
I can
still start it from run -> cmd.

Can someone tell me why it is missing and an easy way to get it back.



First, note that it's not actually MS-DOS, which doesn't exist in
Windows XP. It's a command prompt, which much of the same thing, but
not all, that an MS-DOS prompt would.

You can add *any* program to Start | All Programs by putting a
shortcut to it into
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu|Programs.

In your case, if you want the shortcut in Accessories, then put it in
the Accessories subfolder of the above folder.

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