The disappearing command prompt

Far too often when I do something that brings up the command prompt (on Win2K), it will close its self instantly. For instance, I'm trying to run ipconfig and when I click OK, the window comes up and closes instantly. This is just ridiculous. is there any way to get it to stay open?

If just keeping a CMD window open (or running CMD from the "Run" box) isn't good enough, prefix whatever you're running with cmd /k

For instance

cmd /k ipconfig

.

That'll tell the cmd prompt to stay open. You just gotta type "exit" (or close the window) to get rid of it.

Thanks, that will work.