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RE: Window's O/S


From: "Cassidy Macfarlane" <cmacfarlane () Drummond-Miller co uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:45:46 -0000

This seems to be a 'nearest path' issue - iexplore would use notepad.exe
to 'view source' by default, so when you choose to 'view source',
Windows looks to the PATH variable to find notepad.

Similar to having an executable 'c:\program.exe' when windows is looking
for 'C:\program files\path\to\file\'

Theres probably a workaround by adjusting the path somehow....anyone?

I recall a similar issue - it's definitely related to PATH, anyway, not
got time atm to dig through the archives or technet....

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Naming the folder "notepad.exe" (without quotation marks) also does the
trick.

Any Windows gurus out there willing to explain why this happens?


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On 11/24/05, Native.Code <native.code () gmail com> wrote:
Weird! haha :-) )



On 11/24/05, Stelian Ene <stelian.ene () gecadtech com> wrote:
jacob jango wrote:

create an folder on deskop and name it as "notepad".
open internet explorer > go to view > source code > this will open
the
contents of notepad folder....!!

Even better: rename any exe to notepad.exe ;)

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