Thriving

[billroper]

The new Toshiba Thrive arrived today. It's now mostly configured and I was able to spend some time playing with it tonight. It'll clearly be useful for its intended purpose -- e-mail and web browsing -- although there are some things that I'll need to work around. (For example, ESPN will insist on throwing me onto the mobile version unless I go and change a browser setting every time I reboot the machine. Ick!)

During the process of configuring the Thrive, I've discovered that my Windows 7 upgrade on my home machine has somehow caused the command prompt to stop working. This isn't good, because I don't need a command prompt often, but when I do, I need it badly. So far, I haven't managed to find a solution. *sigh*

Comments

[mdlbear]

install cygwin?

[poltr1]

I second mdlbear's suggestion of Cygwin. It will give you a "bash" shell on your Windows box, and all the nifty power tools it includes. http://www.cygwin.com/.

I take it running "cmd" from the Run window is also hosed.

[jennlk]

The command prompt is still there, it's just harder to find. "Windows"-R should give you a run box, and cmd should give you a command line. (The "Windows" key is the one with the wavy box icon on it.)

[billroper]

No, cmd.exe runs, but I don't get the window, nor can I get it to appear by tweaking properties.

[scarfman]

It may not be the same with 7, but on my Vista I can get Command Prompt through the search field on the Start menu. But I don't know whether that'll be any help when you say above that you can run the program, just not have the window appear ...

[billroper]

Sadly, no. The program appears in Task Manager, but doesn't display itself.

[filkermanque.livejournal.com]

Do the registry entries that refer to cmd.exe look odd? (What would odd look like?)

Does it behave any differently in Safe mode?