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internal command not recognize

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msfgreen

Technical User
Aug 23, 2001
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US
I have a problem with Win2k not recognizing commands at the Dos prompt like (Ping), (Copy), and other dos command. The error message that I receive is "Internal Command not recognized".

Please Help!!!!!
 
Ping does not work? Does ANY command work?

Rename your computer if it contains special characters like "&", and try again.
Pbxman
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I have this problem on all dos commands at the dos prompt. This computer does not have any special characters in its name.



thanks
 
Check your path by typing path at the command prompt and make sure you have an entry to the location of the commands.
 
Check your path by typing "path" at the command prompt and make sure you have an entry to the location of the commands.
 
Try to be more detailed about this as well. There are too many possibilities with the info you have given.

For instance,
Is this an upgrade from 95 or 98? Have the commands worked before, and now they dont? Have you scanned for viruses? Have you tried replacing the cmd.exe file with a known good one? Have you altered any environment variables? Installed any system Utilities on the PC?

If you post your email, I can send you a fresh CMD.exe that you can place in your winnt\system32 folder, and winnt\system32\dllcache folders and try again.
Pbxman
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Check the path statement. Change the system variable reference to the actual path. I've seen this happen before, and doing that corrected the problem.
 
when you type a command at the prompt, it looks for the program in the system32 directory of your windows dir (normally c:\winnt)
 
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