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I am running windows 98 and i have a home built cpu. I have been having dos COMMAND issues. Could not get it to defragment. Then I think I picked up a virus or two of my autoexec.bat files got corrupted. himem and win.com. Now at the dos command line it gives me a MESSAGE when I type "edit autoexec.bat" I get BAD command or filename as the response. It doesn't RECOGNIZE the format disk command either. It will let me list the dir and cd.

I'm not 100% computer savvy but I'm not computer dumb. Please help. Use the cd & dir commands to check the location & existance of the files that won't run.Both Dir and Cd are internal commands for Command.com, Edit and Format are external (UTILITIES).

So you can Dir and Cd all you like but you have to set the path to where Edit and Format reside. Can't be sure but think that in 98 Edit & Format are in C:\Windows\System, I'm sure you can find them - do a search and set your Path to suit.

Good luckWin.com should be located in c:\windows
Edit and Format should be in c:\windows\command
Both directories should be in your Path statement