"Ping" not recognized as an internal or external command

When you have this kind of response when you try to ping a network address. this is caused by, a computer path statement gor messed up by virus or spyware.

Here's some tips how to restore your path statement.

1. first of all you have to check whether the path is altered or not.

The normal patch consist of:

"%SystemRoot%\system32" or "%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem"

Which translates to something like:

C:\WINDOWS\system32

This mean that all the command are available in the system32 folder such as ping.exe,
tracert.exe, etc. To check it open the command box and type "set" to see all of the configuration or "path" to see only the path.

2. If the path is wrong right click on my computer > Properties, Next select the Advance tab, and Environment Variables button, and select the Path variaible listed under System Variables.

Change the path using the variable above. It would solve the ping problem.