No it is not, it is a fresh installed XP, and the same problem occurs on undreds of machines running XP and 2k. But I forgot to precise that once the session is opened and the desktop is completely loaded, %TEMP% points to the correct directory (C:\Doc & Settings\<user>\...\temp).
This strange behaviour occurs only at logon. If someone has any ideas or addresses where I can find some ideas ? Tim Roberts a écrit : > le dahut wrote: >> I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP >> instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp" at >> logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write >> there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc. >> >> Why ? Is there a KB article about that ? >> > > This is almost certainly a machine that used to run Windows 9X, and was > upgraded in place to XP. On 9X, there was no "Documents and Settings" > directory, so temp files went into \Windows\TEMP, and the XP upgrade > process tries to maintain that. > > I would think that MANY things would fail if %TEMP% were not writable. > > You could fall back to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp, I suppose. > _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
