Windows xp ping command not found

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Next select the Advance tab, and Environment Variables button, and select the Path variable listed under System Variables. Next select the Advance tab, and Environment Variables button, and select the Path variaible listed under System Variables. You can add an additional path by seperating the existing values with a semicolon. As someone else mentioned is the executable there look for ping.

If it's not there then that's your issue. Are you having any problems with other commands like tracert? Followed Sean's instructions and made the adjustment to the "path" environment variable. Make sure this variable is ok. Joined Jul 21, Messages 1. Eset and other utilites reported malware and viruses removed. My computer is running better. Should I settle for the help I have gotten thusfar. Don't understand 'pinging'. Maybe with step-by-step guied I could do it.

Any advice would be appreciated. Kind regards. I don't know why this thread did not automatically close a couple years ago. Crusher, I would move your post to a new thread of its own but I don't know whether you are looking for networking or malware or some other help.

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