ipconfig not recongized

[ajblue90]

so I setup a minecraft server on my laptop and it was running fine for a couple weeks then last night I reinstalled minecraft on my desktop and when I went to login to the server I had to reenter it.ok so I went to cmd and type in ipconfig to get the ip I have to use to connect to the server within the local network well it keeps telling me that ipconfig is not an recognizes as a internal or external command operable command or batch file. I went to c:\window\system 32 and found the .exe and when I run it it shows up like normal in the cmd but closes after a split second can anyone help

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

This typically happens when the the PATH statements in the environment variables does not include C:\Windows\system32 (that's the path where ipconfig.exe is located).

Click the Start button.
Right-click "Computer" and choose "Properties"
Click "Advanced system settings" in the left panel.
Click "Environment Variables" at bottom of box.
In the list of "System variables", find and double-click Path.
In the Edit box, go to the end of the existing value string.
Add ;%SystemRoot%\system32 to the end of that string
(don't leave a space and be sure to include the semi-colon ; at the beginning of the new path entry as shown above).

Now click 'OK' on the edit box and on all other open boxes.