ipconfig /all no longer works?

Telemachus

For some reason I am suddenly unable to use the command "ipconfig /all" at the command prompt. I receive the message "ipconfig /all is not recognized as an interal or external command, operable program, or batch file". I'm using Windows XP, and I also get no response when I right-click my local area connection and select "status". Any advice?

DrFrylock

Your %PATH% user environment variable probably got erased, malformed, or no longer includes your \windows\system32 directory.

Telemachus

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL;C:\Program Files\QuickTime Alternative\QTSystem\;;

That's what it should be, no?

Bama

That looks good so long as %SystemRoot% is properly defined. Can you find ipconfig.exe using windows' search?

Telemachus

Yeah, it's where it should be (c:\windows\system32\ipconfig.exe). I can use it by manually navigating to the directory at the command prompt, I guess, but it's somewhat inconvenient. Plus, I just don't like things not working correctly.

Bama

Ok, that is bizarre. Can you confirm that %SystemRoot% is defined as C:\Windows?

Telemachus

It is indeed. >echo %systemroot% = c:\windows

Ruckus

Have you tried running it from 'cmd' as well as 'command'? They sometimes react differently for no apparent reason.

Also, you can check your Environmental Variables under My Computer/Properties/Advanced/Environmental Variables. If a weird User or System variable got in their, it could conceivably muck things up.

Yar

Can you locate the ipconfig executable, and run it from that folder?

Ruckus

Yar wrote: »

Can you locate the ipconfig executable, and run it from that folder?

Telemachus wrote: »

Yeah, it's where it should be (c:\windows\system32\ipconfig.exe). I can use it by manually navigating to the directory at the command prompt, I guess, but it's somewhat inconvenient. Plus, I just don't like things not working correctly.

iTunesIsEvil

My PATH var doesn't have other variables in it. For instance mine is:

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

Notice that the SystemRoot is actually C:\WINDOWS and not just the environment variable. I think environment variables have to be their actual values, and not a variable itself.

See what happens if you replace the %SystemRoot% with C:\WINDOWS in your path.

Telemachus

That did it. Still get no response when I right-click my connection and select status, but the command-prompt actions now function. Much obliged, all.

gneGne

Are you using a space after the "ipconfig /"? Stupid question maybe, but it seems to look like that in the thread title.

EDIT: nvm, works with a space too.