From:	lintux AT dds DOT nl (Wilmer van der Gaast)
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Subject:	Re: Detecting Windows and Windows directory from DOS
Date:	18 Mar 2000 11:16:03 GMT
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One day, Yong-Kwang Goh made the following words appear on our screens:
> This is not foolproof and it'll not work if your program can't get regedit
> to work for it, either regedit cannot be found, is not installed at all or
> access to regedit is denied for security reason.
> 
Also, if the user installed Windows into C:\WINDOZE or not on drive C,
things won't work either. A good way to solve this might be looking in
the PATH environment variable. Just look for the windir\COMMAND, strip
the \COMMAND part and you have the directory where you must be able to
find regedit. And it's _very_ difficult to prevent this directory from
being in the PATH... :(
I hate such automatic stuff...


Greetings,

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