Joffer Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I've made an unattended WinXPSP2 CD using the guides on this site. I've also used some of the regtweaks collections. The thing is I think I've disabled my backspace key in command prompt somehow. I can not delete what I write in my command prompt (cmd.exe) with backspace. The only way is to use my left arrow key and then use the delete key.Anyone know where I should look to fix this? It's really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender341 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 if you can try using the virtual keyboard Start > All Prrograms > Accesseries > Accessibility > On-Screen Keyboard (in XP)to see if its hardware related, other than that I can't think of anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0mE0nesMiNd1 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 I had this problem too...someone must have posted an invalid registry tweak or something. But then again, I also changed my command prompt background, and text colors through the registry....dont know if thats it or not... Goodluck man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Post your Registry Tweaks so we can examine it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joffer Posted August 20, 2005 Author Share Posted August 20, 2005 (edited) if you can try using the virtual keyboard Start > All Prrograms > Accesseries > Accessibility > On-Screen Keyboard (in XP)to see if its hardware related, other than that I can't think of anything<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I have installed on two (new amd64) computers, the same on both, so we can rule out bad hardwareI had this problem too...someone must have posted an invalid registry tweak or something. But then again, I also changed my command prompt background, and text colors through the registry....dont know if thats it or not... Goodluck man.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I did change the command prompt color...My regtweaks that gets installed during winxp installation are attached.REG_Tweaks_ct6.txt Edited August 29, 2005 by Joffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahi Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Dont paste long files like that into these forums, attach them.A search for "command" in your tweaks shows youre setting the file name completion character in two different places, and to 2 different values.I'm pretty sure 9 (TAB) is the correct value. 8 is the backspace key.;----- Typing Long File Names In DOS;-----[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor]"CompletionChar"=dword:00000009;----- cmd prompt enhancements: tab key completes path+filenames, UNC checks off;-----[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]"CompletionChar"=dword:00000008"PathCompletionChar"=dword:00000008"DisableUNCCheck"=dword:00000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joffer Posted August 29, 2005 Author Share Posted August 29, 2005 Dont paste long files like that into these forums, attach them.Fixed A search for "command" in your tweaks shows youre setting the file name completion character in two different places, and to 2 different values.I'm pretty sure 9 (TAB) is the correct value. 8 is the backspace key.;----- Typing Long File Names In DOS;-----[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor]"CompletionChar"=dword:00000009;----- cmd prompt enhancements: tab key completes path+filenames, UNC checks off;-----[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]"CompletionChar"=dword:00000008"PathCompletionChar"=dword:00000008"DisableUNCCheck"=dword:00000001<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Seems like I've made a typo I searched and found a few reg settings which, as you said correctly, had a value of 8 and not 9. Guess that makes sence since backspace sometimes gave me TabCompletion.. Why I did not put those two together and figure it out myself I don't know. Now backspace works again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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