Path!

[Arpan]

I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.

The "SET" command at the Command Prompt displays a list of all the
environment variables. Among those variables, there is a variable named
PATH for which the values are

Path=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN

I was under the impression that the PATH variable points towards the
system root folder C:\WINNT only but why does it point to the other
folders like system32, Wbem & MSSQL\BINN as well?

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Dave Patrick]

A clean install would have at least;
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem
the others were a result of various application installs.

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|I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.
|
| The "SET" command at the Command Prompt displays a list of all the
| environment variables. Among those variables, there is a variable named
| PATH for which the values are
|
| Path=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN
|
| I was under the impression that the PATH variable points towards the
| system root folder C:\WINNT only but why does it point to the other
| folders like system32, Wbem & MSSQL\BINN as well?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Arpan
|

 

[Gary Smith]

The PATH variable lists all of the folders that Windows will search to
find executable programs when a complete filename is not specified. A
functional Windows 2000 system requires at least WINNT\System32, WINNT,
and WINNT\System32\Wbem. A system may have many more than that, depending