MIssing components "Ping" "ipconfig"

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Bruce Barbour

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
 
Bruce said:
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
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Are they missing? Or is the path to them not there?

Open a command prompt and type in:

%systemroot%\system32\ping.exe www.google.com

Work?
 
Bruce said:
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
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Are they missing? Or is the path to them not there?

Open a command prompt and type in:

%systemroot%\system32\ping.exe www.google.com

Work?
Click to expand...

Bruce said:
Yes, thanks very much, didn't realize I hadn't advised you.
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That means your path statement is missing the part that tells it to look in
%systemroot%\system32\ for many commands you might run.
 
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