This is a new problem I havent come across before, I'm on Windows XP Pro SP2, Intel Pentium II processor, 400 MHz, 256 MB of Ram.
When I go into 'run' and enter 'msconfig' I get a window that pops up saying windows cannot find msconfig, make sure you typed it correctly or do a search, when I try others like regedit or taskmgr they work fine....
Any idea what the problem may be here?You might go here and download msconfig.exe: http://www.richardthelionhearted.com/~merijn/winfiles.html.  They show:
Windows XP:  Download
Windows XP SP1: Download

I'll let you figure out which one you should get.  That's obviously not right. Scan for viruses and spyware.Thanx for this info soybean, in the first step it says to unzip the new file into 'C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache', that folder isnt even there, I guess its safe to assume I should create that folder and unzip it in there?Some oems in the Infinite wisdom , decided that the would leave the help and suport tool's out of there install.

if you have a real windows CD you should be able to install them, or if the oem left a copy of the CD on the Comp youll find them some where in the I386 folderYes, that might be the best way to get msconfig back.   I found a reference, XP msconfig, which says:

EXTRACT a New Copy of Msconfig.exe

Open a command PROMPT window. Insert your XP CD into the drive and enter the following command:

EXPAND -R X:\I386\MSCONFIG.EX_Z:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\BINARIES

If you find this method unworkable for some reason, then I would go ahead and add the dllcache folder and install the msconfig file you downloaded.  Not having a dllcache folder in the System32 folder seems odd.  I was just LOOKING at dllcache contents in my computer; it contains a LOT more than msconfig.Its kind of strange, when I do the last step (Windows XP: C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries) the msconfig icon is there and works when I click on it, seems to be just the shortcut through the 'run' program doesnt work....W2K doesn't come with msconfig either, so I just downloaded a copy from the net & dumped it into my system32 directory. It's a stand alone program so as long as you put it in a directory that's in your path it will work.