Yeah no such variable that's where I looked. Maybe I will add it and see what 
happens

CW
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-----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
> 

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