Admin Know-IT-All Question #19 |
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By Mr. Know-IT-All
21 Jan 2003 | SearchWinIT.com |
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Were you correct?
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
- Henry Miller
Today's Know-IT-All answer is:
c. Store commonly used program paths in the Registry
Learn more:
Despite Windows 2000's graphical shell, there are many administrators who are more comfortable with a command line. They just like to bang a few keys to get their favorite programs to come up rather than navigate through a nest of menus and submenus.
However, most programs don't automatically add their executable path to the PATH: environment variable -- and the PATH: variable tops out at 1,023 characters in length. This length can be modified by a Registry edit, but command-line sessions still truncate the variable to 1,023 characters. (This is not the total space devoted to environment variables, just the maximum size of any given variable.)
Fortunately there is a more sophisticated way to handle how Windows looks for executables...
If this quiz has left you yearning for more information, please check the links below for related articles and tips:
>> Read Serdar Yegulalp's full article entitled: Store commonly used program paths in the Registry.
>> Learn more about registry keys as they relate to keeping users from installing software.
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