On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Gavin Wilby
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as I know all a path does is allows EXE's to run without having to 
> enter the full directory path to the executable.
>
> Isn’t this as simple as finding out what now doesn’t work, then adding the 
> path variable.
>
> C:\mydir\myapp\myapp.exe
>
> Add c:\mydir to your path?

Yeah, that's what I said .. you notice they said "See what you can do
to get it all back for us ..".

> And most apps will be in %programfiles% in any case.

Wanna bet? :-)

F:\psoft\hub91\bin\client\winx86;C:\Program Files\EMC
NetWorker\nsr\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;D:\Tuxedo\tuxedo10gR3_VS2008\bin;D:\Tuxedo\tuxedo10gR3_VS2008\jre\bin\server;D:\Tuxedo\tuxedo10gR3_VS2008\jre\bin;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL
Server\110\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft
SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL
Server\110\DTS\Binn\;F:\Tuxedo\tuxedo12.1.1.0_VS2012\bin;F:\Tuxedo\tuxedo12.1.1.0_VS2012\jre\bin\server;F:\Tuxedo\tuxedo12.1.1.0_VS2012\jre\bin;C:\Program
Files\Java\jre7\bin\

I found that PATH in the registry, under "ControlSet002"
(CurrentControlSet and ControlSet001 both had just Java in their
path).

So I saved that key as a text file; copied the path; set it in Control
Panel, and logged out. Now when I log in as the usual user, I see the
above.

And I *think* it's correct. Waiting to hear back from my users ...


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