-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06-07-99 at 11:56 Ben Greenbaum wrote: >When a user logs into an NT machine, there are a few processes that are >started automatically, including explorer.exe. These programs are normally >in %winroot% or %winroot%\system32. The problem is that NT will look for >these programs first in the user's home directory. This is ultimately caused by the fact that in MS-DOS, Windows and NT, "." has always implicitly been the first entry in the PATH. And when NT starts up an executable, the current directory is initially set to the user's home directory... Cheers, /Dim - -- Dimitry Andric <dimat_private> PGP key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dim/dim.asc KeyID: 4096/1024-0x2E2096A3 Fingerprint: 7AB4 62D2 CE35 FC6D 4239 4FCD B05E A30A 2E20 96A3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Encrypted with PGP Plugin for Calypso Comment: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm iQA/AwUBN4MXn7BeowouIJajEQKJtQCfTelelgKHbOwhMydvy/bJM5Q3ZNkAn2vE f/Xrss1EciwP1LRol91++GDi =DEs4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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