Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command Error

[deathknight47]

Hii guyz...For few days I am getting a strange error while executing most of the commands via command prompt like ipconfig everytime i endup facing like ipconfig is not recognized as an internal or external command...I read about fixing the PATH in environment variables but i can't find a step by step procedure on how to fix the PATH in environment variable...If anyone can help i would really appreciate...Thanks

[MilesAhead]

Right click on Computer,
click Properties,
click either Advanced Tab or Advanced System Settings (varies with Windows version)
Environment Variables should have a button near the bottom.

If it is blank you should be able to find example path,comspec and extended path strings on google.  My system path includes:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static

I have a 64 bit system.  If yours is 32 bit you won't have C:\Program Files (x86)    it will just say C:\Program Files

Edit:  If you have W7 see this
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

[deathknight47]

Hiii Thanks for your valuable information....The thing you have mentioned here is the same that I got from the below link that includes a step by step solution and it did worked for me ...I think if there are some others users facing the same issue can go through the below article and fix such issue with simple trick...

http://www.rushinformation.com/not-recognized-internal-external-command-fixed/

[MilesAhead]

Thank you for posting the link.