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From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Bad command or file name error -- solved?
Date: 16 Mar 2002 21:21:26 GMT
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote in 
news:3c8abc17 DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu:

>> I have acess to a Win2k machine, which incidentally I've been the fist
>> user to put a shortcut in the Desktop to a 'MS-DOS prompt', and never
>> saw anything similar to this behaviour! The machine has its pristine
>> configuration files, so I wonder if Hans is not correct in his
>> wanderings!
> 
> I've got more Windows 2000 systems than I care to count.  A quick test
> showed that some of them show this problem - but others don't!  

the file autoexec.nt in MY %SystemRoot%\system32\ directory contained the 
following lines:

%SystemRoot%\system32\vipx.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\vlmsup.exe

since i don't care about ipx or vlm, i commented those lines out. no more 
'Bad command or file name' the first time I try to run something.

Hope this helps.

Sinan.