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From: Jason Hood <jadoxa AT yahoo DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: NT for Autoexec
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 02:00:43 +1000
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Andrew Wall wrote:
> 
> That's very interesting, Rui, but on my system I haven't got an Autoexec.bat
> (Well I have, but that is located at C:\ and I know that isn't used because
> I never see any of the echoes from it), so I created one in
> C:\Windows\System32 with just an echo in it and that never fires off!
> This leaves Autoexec.nt as the only place to put these environment
> variables.

XP (don't about NT/2K) does indeed process AUTOEXEC.BAT, but *only*
the environment variables (SET commands); everything else is ignored.
This is useful in a dual-boot situation. I have "if 1==1 autow98.bat"
as the first line in AUTOEXEC.BAT. If it's XP, it's ignored and the
XP environment is setup, otherwise it processes the old AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Jason.