Windows XP Commands Not Working

Many Times due to some Environment variable setting in system values of path variable changes . . .which leads to this type of problems.

Ex.

1) If you open command prompt cmd and type any command as 'ipconfig' you get output as :

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Girish> Ipconfig
'Ipconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

2) Now simple thing you have to do is : change path variable value.

Steps :


1) right click on my computer > properties > Advanced > Environment Variable > System Variable
2) Select PATH variable and click on Edit 
3) Add at the End :   ";C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32" without quotes.

That's it now you can fetch any commands in XP you want !