My Command Prompt sucks

[Telkomisaloser]

I can't do commands on it such as
arp -a
ping (a address)
shutdown a computer on a network

Can anyone direct me to a new version of Command Prompt

 

[|tera|]

lol, is this windows command prompt? try cmd and command at run, there's a difference between the two

 

[Telkomisaloser]

I tried both at run, none didn't want to work

 

[hj2k_x]

lol, is this windows command prompt? try cmd and command at run, there's a difference between the two

what is the difference? command works for me, cmd does not

 

[zerofocus]

Sounds like your system is running in some restricted mode. Maybe there are some tools loaded thats restricting access to those things you want to run.

 

[|tera|]

That's berry berry strange telkomisaloser, I'd have a look at the rest of windows to see if it's working fine? Do you run XP?

 

[Telkomisaloser]

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

yip on this pc I do

 

[|tera|]

Cmd works for me and command works not, lol. So there's definitely a difference between the two, I'm just not sure what it is.

 

[|tera|]

If you just type in ping and enter? What does it say the same thing?

Try it in cmd

 

[Telkomisaloser]

C:\>ping 127.0.0.1
'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>ping
'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

 

[|tera|]

Very strange, I'm out of ideas TIAL, google may have answers

 

[Telkomisaloser]

well, Off to google I go

 

[|tera|]

This may help http://forum.majorgeeks.com/archive/index.php/t-13419.html

This too: http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37876

 

[Telkomisaloser]

ahh the second one helped the %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%; was missing

/me goes and kills some svchost.exe files from the Windows Task manager again

 

[|tera|]

cool, glad you got it fixed

 

[Darth Garth]

svchost.exe

Why ???.

 

[Darth Garth]

And some people around here need to get a "liksens" to operate a PC .

 

[Telkomisaloser]

Why ???.

It's a evil program

 

[Telkomisaloser]

cool, glad you got it fixed

thanks to you

 

[Darth Garth]

It's a evil program

Hearing voices again ??? .

It is a really odd but very usefull Windows subsystem ... you might have noticed that it appears more than once in the taskmanager.

Windows compared to Linix has a HUGE overheard in terms of resources whenever you create a new process so windows developers thought up a way for a single program to "host" other processes in itself in order to save on memory.

svchost runs the DHCP and DNS clients , uPnP, Zero Config Wireless and Themes for example

I would not kill it ... you might just kill the wrong one .