I know, I am writing about the thing that is a lot over the internet but today in my Good Morning to my Desk, I tried to ping of host in my network and I just got this message and I faced this issue on Windows XP, Windows 7 and now on Windows 8 and on Servers Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008/R2 as well and the solution also work for me on these Operating Systems. Well the message was; C:\Users\rizwan.ahmad>ping 192.168.10.10 'ping' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Solution 1 (Easy): Start > RUN Type control sysdm.cpl,,3 or Open Control Panel » System » Advanced » Environment Variables Right Click on My computer Go to Properties Go to Advanced system settings (on Windows 7 / 8) Environment Variables Select 'PATH' from the list of system variables and edit set PATH to c:\windows\system32 ; Solution 2 (Advance) Open CMD and enter SET command and check the output, there you ...