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28 Jul 2024 14:32:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Delete system32?  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 21 Jan 2014 09:46:41
Message: <52de8851$1@news.povray.org>

> not quite, but...
>
> Ever since I tried to install the latest Blender, whenever I boot my PC,
> I get the system32 folder that opens.  I suppose there's a registry
> entry somewhere that got created improperly and instead of trying to
> load "C:\Windows\System32\whatchamacallit.dll" or
> "%SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32\foobar.exe" it simply loads "C:\Windows\System32".
>
> How do I find out which one it is?  Regedit's search function is not
> smart enough to let me search for ( "system32" except when it's
> "system32\" )
>
>
Addendum:

Searching through the registry reveals a smorgasborg of 
"C:\Windows\System32" and "%SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32"...  It looks like 
consistency is not Microsoft's forte!

I now get a better appreciation for Stefan Kanthak's series of posts 
entitled "Security, the Microsoft way" on the Securityfocus mailing list.

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