Re: Missing items in XP

"Bruce Barbour" <bbarbour@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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WindowsXP Home edition installed and updated. However, when I had some
difficulty with Thunderbird e-mail program, ISP asked me to ping a site
and ping was not recognized as a command. Same thing with ipconfig.
What's happened? Everything else I'm running works fine. Isp man told me
I had lost essential tools in XP. How can I restore them without a
complete new installation? Tnx

This is usually a result of the PATH statement being incorrect. It's a
minor issue and a pretty easy fix. Reinstallation is *not* necessary.

You can confirm this by opening a command prompt, changing to the
windows\system32 directory, and running commands such as ping. They should
run from there, since that's where they are, and that will verify that they
are in fact still there.

To fix the problem, right-click on My Computer and choose Properties. Click
on the Advanced tab and then the Environment Variables button on the bottom.
The Environment Variables window will open. In the lower pane, click on
the Path variable and choose Edit. Make sure that the system32 folder is
listed. Here's part of the path on mine:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;

Once this is done, click Apply and OK back to the desktop. You might
possibly need to reboot to have this take effect.

HTH
-pk


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