Yeah no such variable that's where I looked. Maybe I will add it and see what happens
CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: warpmedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:01:58 To:The Hardware List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] %program files% variable all hosed It's a reg_sz value in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir CW wrote: > Had to do a repair install of WindowsXP 64 on a machine in the house. Now, > the %program files% variable is wonky.. it basically doesn't find it. (ie, > go to a prompt, cd %program files% gets nothing) and programs, as a result, > also are unable to find their icons, etc. or start quite right. Blah! > > I've used RegCrawler to fix all drive letter changes (K:\ to G:\) which > occurred for god knows what reason, but now I'm sitting here wondering if I > just need to blow this thing away and start over, or if there is an easy way > to reset the %program files% variable permenantly. > > CW >
