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Re: Windows 2000 Run As... Feature


From: kenn () BLUETREE IE (Kenn Humborg)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:55:59 -0000


As has been discussed here before, there are a number of places that a
Windows system will look for a binary, so to be really sure that you're
getting the one in system32, use the Run button from the start menu - it
only looks in %systemroot% for things.

NOT TRUE... In every version of windows ive used (upto win2k rc2)
the start->run command will run any executable in your %path%.

And more...  If you enter 'winword' and winword.exe is not on
your patch, Explorer will look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\winword.exe, pull out
the Default value (say C:\program files\MSOffice\Winword\winword.exe)
and run that.

Aarrgghh!

Later,
Kenn


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