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Chad,
Is the command prompt window showing off screen maybe?
Command Prompt Properties | Layout tab | ? Let system position window
There should be two cmd.exe on your machine. Did you read my whole first
post? If cmd.exe isn't corrupted you have some real goofy setting.
command.com uses 8.3 short names, that's one reason not to bother using it.
Truncate = to shorten by or as if by cutting off.
Short File Name (8.3) as opposed to Long file Name.
Windows truncates the file name, if necessary, to six characters and appends
a tilde (~) and a digit. For example, each unique file name created ends
with "~1." Duplicate file names end with "~2," "~3," and so on.
C:\Documents and Settings\Chad
becomes
C:\DOCUME~1\CHA~1
How Windows NT Generates MS-DOS Compatible Filenames
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;99589
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:O%23zfJqIpFHA.3244@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Chad Harris <ddram32_nospam@yahoo.com> hunted and pecked:
> I know that Wes. It was cmd.exe that was corrupted, because command
> opened with the title bar. But I have a hard time distinguishing between
> them. Explanations I have looked up are not clear to me. I notice that
> command has C:\DOCUME~1\CHA~1>l (short for Chad) at the prompt. I wonder
> why?
>
> Tia,
>
> Chad Harris
> ________________________________
>
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uj6IE2GpFHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> command in Run box opens command.com.
>> cmd in the Run box opens cmd.exe.
>> Two different programs.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:ul%23YxoGpFHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
>> Chad Harris <ddram32_nospam@yahoo.com> hunted and pecked:
>>> Robert VA:
>>>
>>> Appreciate your trying to help. Sorry if I was misled by title of group
>>> and making some connection to basic dos group that I thought might help
>>> my
>>> basically simple problem.
>>>
http://www.ggentilejoe.eurobell.co.uk/Text/basic.htm
>>>
>>> I'm striving for that good 'ole fashioned David Candy Clarity as in
>>> HKLM_CRYSTAL CLEAR_CANDY_PRECISION R US with the D_Word Value "SAY
>>> WHAT?"
>>> I guess it's like the Supreme Court's definition of pornography--ya know
>>> it when ya see it they said.
>>>
>>> "Not sure what your problem is anyway. Are you getting a command line
>>> window without the title bar (with the minimize, maximize and close
>>> buttons at the right end)?"
>>>
>>> ***Absolutely that's right Robert. That's what I want to change. I
>>> used to get it. I can get it with "command" in run box.***
>>>
>>> "Are you getting the same context menu right clicking on the title bar
>>> that you get when right clicking on the remainder of the command line
>>> window? What about when you left click on
>>> the icon at the left end of the title bar?"
>>>
>>> ***YES.***
>>>
>>> ***When I right click on the command line window interestingly it
>>> creates a paste of the last sentence of text I typed at the command
>>> line. Repeat right clicks on the window repeats the text paste.
>>>
>>> When I left click the small icon I get the same thing that I get when
>>> you normally click on the title bar and when I right click on the
>>> minimized icon for the cmd prompt at the task bar***.
>>>
>>> "Unfortunately someone thought the BASIC acronym for a language name
>>> was clever."
>>>
>>> ***Gee who could have done that--the large company at Redmond,
>>> Washington who speaks MSDNese?***
>>>
>>> When I type cmd into run box I don't get a name bar from which I can
>>> right
>>> click and edit or use properties to change the appearance of the cmd
>>> prompt, but I do get one when I use command in the run box. I tried to
>>> state this clearly. I could upload the image to image shack but if you
>>> right click the BLUE usually title bar at the top of the WINDOW when
>>> you type cmd to bring up dos emulation in XP you can right click it to
>>> get the dialogue box I described. Try it and you'll see.
>>>
>>> The dialogue box I refer to from right click the name bar on the cmd
>>> prompt window has tabs:
>>> Options/Font/Layout/Colors. The Options tab would seem to be the place
>>> to
>>> change this but it does not for me--(Display Options--Window instead of
>>> full screen.)
>>>
>>> Perhaps John Eddy Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator who can be reached
>>> at
>>> johneddy@microsoft.com could change this if some of the regulars on this
>>> group emailed him.
>>>
>>
____________________________________________________________________________
>> ____
>>>
>>> MSFT pays big bucks to a bevy of language specialists who draw
>>> paychecks at the Redmond campus including Lili Cheng who is by trade
>>> an architect whose team has been borrowed from MSFT Research to work on
>>> interactivity in Vista. You are identifying a symptom at MSFT that
>>> shows up in the Windoz OS with menus that are hardly intuitive and 6-7
>>> entities named Messenger. I would address the name ambiguity to the
>>> gentlman responsible for administering these groups and why hasn't
>>> anyone?
>>>
>>> Lili Cheng's apparently discontinued weblog:
>>>
>>>
http://raindrop.msresearch.us/users/lilich/default.aspx
>>>
>>> Lili Cheng Moved to Vista from MSFT Research:
>>>
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1808279,00.asp
>>>
>>> Tia,
>>>
>>> Chad Harris
>>> ___________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "RobertVA" <robert_c72AThotmail@invalid.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23Vu57LEpFHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>> Chad Harris wrote:
>>>>> I rarely (less than 5 times) cross post in years of using this but I
>>>>> wasn't getting a response in XP general so I tried to pick the most
>>>>> appropriate alternative.
>>>>>
>>>>> On an XP Pro SP2 box, until a few weeks ago, when I brought up the cmd
>>>>> prompt by typing cmd in the run box, I always got XP''s cmd prompt aka
>>>>> dos
>>>>> emulator with a name bar and right clicking on it gave me tools to
>>>>> configure
>>>>> it's appearance and functions. I no longer get this, and I am not
>>>>> using
>>>>> cmd
>>>>> in full screen mode.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can see it by right clicking the minimized cmd on my task bar, using
>>>>> properties or I can use edit from that right click context, but I want
>>>>> the
>>>>> name bar back. When I go to the right click context>properties and
>>>>> click normal window it should restore this but it doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is when I right click defaults or properties and click on the
>>>>> options
>>>>> tab>display options>
>>>>> window (instead of full screen) it doesn't correct this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions or a regedit to fix this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Chad Harris
>>>>
>>>> You're not likely to get much attention in this BASIC programming
>>>> language for DOS environment newsgroup either. Unfortunately someone
>>>> thought the BASIC acronym for a language name was clever.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what your problem is anyway. Are you getting a command line
>>>> window without the title bar (with the minimize, maximize and close
>>>> buttons at the right end)? Are you getting the same context menu right
>>>> clicking on the title bar that you get when right clicking on the
>>>> remainder of the command line window? What about when you left click on
>>>> the icon at the left end of the title bar?
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