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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\" )
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Am 21.01.2014 15:40, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> 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\" )
One - albeit somewhat time-consuming - solution might be to dump
("export") the whole registry to a file, and then use your favorite text
editor with regular expression find & replace do the job. Once you've
located the culprit, you can go back to regedit for fixing it.
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> 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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Am 21.01.2014 15:47, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> Searching through the registry reveals a smorgasborg of
> "C:\Windows\System32" and "%SYSTEM_ROOT%\System32"... It looks like
> consistency is not Microsoft's forte!
Consistency and backward compatibility (or even just decades of
incremental development) have never really gone along well :-P
You'd be surprised how often you still find good old 8.3 filenames in
the freakin' registry.
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> 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\" )
>
>
In the registry, you can search the entries
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
Where are stored all the softwares launched at the startup.
Lionel.
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clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
> You'd be surprised how often you still find good old 8.3 filenames in
> the freakin' registry.
How many new file formats are created nowadays that dare to use more
than 3 characters in their file name extension?
There are some brave people who are courageous enough to make them
larger than 3 characters, but they are extremely rare.
When was the last time that the length of the file name extension had
any kind of relevance on anything?
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>> 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\" )
>>
>>
>
> In the registry, you can search the entries
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
> or
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
> Where are stored all the softwares launched at the startup.
>
> Lionel.
That's the first place i looked, and there are no mentions of system32
there...
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>>> 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\" )
>>>
>>>
>>
>> In the registry, you can search the entries
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
>> or
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
>> Where are stored all the softwares launched at the startup.
>>
>> Lionel.
>
> That's the first place i looked, and there are no mentions of system32
> there...
>
Have you seen in the StartMenu folder? A link may be placed here.
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>>>> 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\" )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> In the registry, you can search the entries
>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
>>> or
>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/MicrosoftWindows/CurrentVersion/Run
>>> Where are stored all the softwares launched at the startup.
>>>
>>> Lionel.
>>
>> That's the first place i looked, and there are no mentions of system32
>> there...
>>
> Have you seen in the StartMenu folder? A link may be placed here.
>
It's late and my brain slow down!!!
Have you search for /explorer.exe/? It open the folder.
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Am 21.01.2014 17:58, schrieb Warp:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> You'd be surprised how often you still find good old 8.3 filenames in
>> the freakin' registry.
>
> How many new file formats are created nowadays that dare to use more
> than 3 characters in their file name extension?
>
> There are some brave people who are courageous enough to make them
> larger than 3 characters, but they are extremely rare.
Indeed.
Virtually the only pieces of software using file name extensions >3
characters seem to belong to the domain of development tools.
That, and the new MS Office file name extensions.
(The open source community seems to have been more daring in this
respect; probably because its strongest roots are in the Unix community,
where technically there has never been such a thing as file extensions
anyway.)
> When was the last time that the length of the file name extension had
> any kind of relevance on anything?
Only a few days ago. Relevant in the sense that the artificial
limitation to 3 characters keeps leading to file extension clashes,
which suck :-P
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