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More info?)
Just do ipconfig /release from cmd.exe, all that work is done from cmd
in Windows 2000, unlike Windows 9x.
John
Vasu wrote:
> I had some problems on my dual boot and restored it from the ghost. It is
> booting perfectly.
> I was trying to release the ipconfig, for which i normally used to go to
> command prompt rather than cmd.
> so when i noticed that command is not working, I posted it to the newsgroup.
>
> Thanks
>
> "John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
> news:ugoMerzJFHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>What are you trying to do with command.com that you can't do with
>>cmd.exe? Without doing any research it sounds to me that you are trying
>>to send illegal instructions to the Windows Executive Services. Windows
>>2000 doesn't run on DOS and it won't let itself be run by DOS.
>>
>>John
>>
>>Vasu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now i got
>>>
>>>d:\winnt\system32\command.com
>>>The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction
>>>CS:04c3 IP:869c OP:63 6a 0959 67
>>>Choose close to terminate the application
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message
>>>news:%23gUh2ZxJFHA.2704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Command.com is a DOS command. If you absoluteley must run command.com
>>>>then see this:
>>>>
>>>>"16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem" error message when you run an MS-DOS or 16-Bit
>>>>Windows program in Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 Server
>>>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305521
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>>
>>>>Vasu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>When i run command from the start -> run
>>>>>i get the following message
>>>>>d:\winnt\system32\command.com
>>>>>d:\winnt\system32\autoexec.nt. the system file is not suitable for
>>>
>>>running
>>>
>>>
>>>>>ms-dos and microsoft windows applications.
>>>>>choose 'close' to terminate the system
>>>>>
>>>>>I can execute the cmd from the the run command.
>>>>>
>>>>>please help
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>Vasu
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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