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How to Fix Visual Studio Code code . is not recognized as an internal and external Command in CMD
Jun 7, 2025
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uh hello guys uh in this video I will
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show you how to fix this uh error if it
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is coming inside your terminal so if you
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just type here code
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dash uh this error message will uh
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display right here code is not
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recognized as an internal or external
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command uh this is actually a shortcut
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by which we can open the V vs code which
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is a coding environment for coding so it
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is a shortcut by which we can develop uh
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open VSS code in a folder so if the
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shortcut is not working in that case we
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haven't added the VSS code location in
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the path so it's easy fix to fix this
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problem here you first of all need to
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find out where vs code is residing so
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you just need to search your Visual
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Studio code and just right click right
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here and see open file
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location and by default it stored inside
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this again click so this shortcut will
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come right here again right click and
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simply open file location and now it
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will tell you the exact location where
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it is stored right here it is stored
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inside your C drive users and whatever
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is your username then app data local
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programs Microsoft VSS code so this is
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the default location you just need to
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right click the copy this
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location and then you need to go to
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environment variable just search here
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and just you need to write here click
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this and go to the system variable
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system path variable you will see
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this and edit and just add a new entry
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right here click the new button and just
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simply paste this complete path so as
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soon as you paste this path here now
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just click okay okay and just restart
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your
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terminal and if you type the same
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shortcut once again just type code dash
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now you will see it will open vs code in
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that
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folder code dash you will see it will
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now open vs code in that particular
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folder so now this is a very easy fix to
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actually uh fix that error message which
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is coming right here you just need to
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add the location of your vs code inside
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your enir variable and then that will
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work so thank you very much for watching
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