XP-SP2 Command prompt Case Sensativity Trivia?

[Guest]

I'm not sure why this is happening, but on my work PC, while at a command
prompt, everything is case sensitive, as in changingto directories (cd) to
some dir that might be C:\Temp is case sensative. I mean if I type cd
c:\temp, I get an error about the path-directory not being found. At home,
and in all the other Microsoft OS's I've worked in, I havenever found the
command prompt to be case sensative. Both at work and home are at XP-SP2, is
there some service or patch installed that causes this behavior? Something
in a GPO, or Posix? This may be trivial, but is bugging me. Thanks in
advance!

 

[Jon]

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Jon

 

[Sharon F]

I'm not sure why this is happening, but on my work PC, while at a command
prompt, everything is case sensitive, as in changingto directories (cd) to
some dir that might be C:\Temp is case sensative. I mean if I type cd
c:\temp, I get an error about the path-directory not being found. At home,
and in all the other Microsoft OS's I've worked in, I havenever found the
command prompt to be case sensative. Both at work and home are at XP-SP2, is
there some service or patch installed that causes this behavior? Something
in a GPO, or Posix? This may be trivial, but is bugging me. Thanks in
advance!

The network at work may have a policy in place. Example: XP Pro's Local
Security Policy Editor has an option to "require case insensitivity" for
system objects.

By default, Windows systems are not case-sensitive but other operating
systems are. If work has a mixed environment (likely), this may explain why
they would implement such a policy.