I figured out how to get around that problem.... for some reason windows doesn't think its in the windows\system32\ directory So I CDed it "CD C:\WINDOWS\system32\" and than I tried the command "ipconfig.exe" and it worked fine... I also tried just "ipconfig", and "tracert.exe" and "tracert" and they all worked fine after I manually changed the directory... WEIRD! I donno what its problem was, but it worked... Oh, but as soon as I close the window it goes back to it's "broken" state So I have to do it every time ... I hope that helps