rational

what is the rational behind putting some windows executables in two seperate
folders.

Eg. Notepad.exe resides in \Windows as well as \Windows\System32

It is invoked from the system32 folder.

  • amitr0

Pretty sure it is just legacy / compatibility.

Brandon

amitr0 wrote:

what is the rational behind putting some windows executables in two
seperate folders.

Eg. Notepad.exe resides in \Windows as well as \Windows\System32

It is invoked from the system32 folder.

Hello,

amitr0 wrote:

what is the rational behind putting some windows executables in two
seperate folders.

see http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/03/28/563008.aspx

Regards,
Spiro.


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…it sure does add to he mess…