full-disclosure - Window's O/S

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Message-ID: <6C822FACDE1C534CA72836EC615EFC4D6288@mail.dm.local>
Date: Thu Nov 24 11:42:05 2005
From: cmacfarlane at Drummond-Miller.co.uk (Cassidy Macfarlane)
Subject: Window's O/S

This seems to be a 'nearest path' issue - iexplore would use notepad.exe
to 'view source' by default, so when you choose to 'view source',
Windows looks to the PATH variable to find notepad.

Similar to having an executable 'c:\program.exe' when windows is looking
for 'C:\program files\path\to\file\'

Theres probably a workaround by adjusting the path somehow....anyone?

I recall a similar issue - it's definitely related to PATH, anyway, not
got time atm to dig through the archives or technet....

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Sent: 24 November 2005 11:25
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Window's O/S


Naming the folder "notepad.exe" (without quotation marks) also does the
trick.

Any Windows gurus out there willing to explain why this happens?


--
pagvac (Adrian Pastor)
www.ikwt.com

On 11/24/05, Native.Code <native.code@...il.com> wrote:
> Weird! haha :-) )
>
>
>
> On 11/24/05, Stelian Ene <stelian.ene@...adtech.com> wrote:
> > jacob jango wrote:
> >
> > > create an folder on deskop and name it as "notepad".
> > > open internet explorer > go to view > source code > this will open
the
> > > contents of notepad folder....!!
> >
> > Even better: rename any exe to notepad.exe ;)
> >
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