Regedit

[jcright]

Since you guys did so well on the last one, I thougth I'd ask another question

There is a .bat file that I am supposed to run that will install a program on my computer. However, when I go to run it, I got a dos window (which I should get) that says "regedit' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

When I go to "start" then "run" and type in "regedit", it comes up with the reg editor. However, when I do it from the command line, I can't gives me the error I listed above. In fact, when I go to run "ipconfig", I get the same problem.

Any ideas?

 

[fwhchung]

Ok, for this, I suggest you add the location of regedit.exe to your PATH environment variable by doing this:

Right click on my computer >> Properties >> Advanced tab >> Environment Variables >> Look for PATH in your System Variables.

Now, add C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\System32 to the list. Close all command prompts, open a new command prompt, type:

path

and check if C:\WINDOWS and C:\WINDOWS\System32 is in the list. If it is, then you should be able to access regedit and ipconfig from the command prompt.

That's what I usually do to solve this problem, unless your admin has locked your access to My Computer properties. Then there's another way through the command prompt. But see if this works first.

 

[jcright]

Okay....so how do I add more than one?I selected "New" and typed in Path and C:\Windows. From there I was able to get regedit to work. I tried it again and selected "new" typed Path and C:\Windows\System32 and was able to get ipconfig to work. Then I tried doing "new" and typed Path with the following: C:\Windows; C:\Windows\System32 but only one would work. I thought that it would add another "path" variable when I selected new and typed "path" but it only overwrote it. So, I guess the question becomes: How do I put both of those on one variable line?

 

[fwhchung]

You should only have 1 Path Env. variable. If there's an existing, use that instead of the ones your created.

Does it look like this (no space between paths):

Variable--------------Value
Path-----------------C:\Windows\System32;C:\Windows;<other paths>

You might have to restart your machine.

 

[jcright]

I might have put a space between C:\Windows; and C:\Windows. It stayed this time and is working.

Thanks for your help

 

[ds-jan]

Wow - thank you so much for posting this solution!!! I had exactly the same problem on a laptop, and everything is working smoothly again :-D Talk about receiving help from above... thanks again and God bless you.