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Thread ID: 113929 2010-11-10 08:02:00 No ping command!?!? pine-o-cleen (2955) Press F1
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1151853 2010-11-10 08:02:00 Ok, so the weirdest thing ever has happend to my PC.

I'm running XP home and for some reason I cant start the ping command from the command interface. I can run it when I go Start > Run, but if I start up command.exe It just comes up with


'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Why!?
pine-o-cleen (2955)
1151854 2010-11-10 08:06:00 what if you run CMD instead of Command.exe? Agent_24 (57)
1151855 2010-11-10 08:14:00 That's what I do. Maybe I should try the full 'command.exe'. pine-o-cleen (2955)
1151856 2010-11-10 08:15:00 Just tried it, same thing, except for some odd reason, the word 'ping' comes back in caps in the error message, even though it was entered in lower case. pine-o-cleen (2955)
1151857 2010-11-10 08:15:00 Your Ping command may have gotten it knickers in a twist as to where it actually is.

See if This answer (answers.yahoo.com) works / fixes it. A few more instructions (www.askmehelpdesk.com) -- I'd say the path to the ping.exe has gotten screwed up somehow.
wainuitech (129)
1151858 2010-11-10 08:20:00 Thanks wainuitech, that worked. So somehow the path variable got messed up huh? Weird. pine-o-cleen (2955)
1151859 2010-11-10 08:22:00 Thanks wainuitech, that worked. So somehow the path variable got messed up huh? Weird. It s Wednesday -- good enough reason :p wainuitech (129)
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