On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:31:25PM -0600, Ward Taylor wrote: > Hi: > There is a win2k registry setting which allows the default .dll search order > to be changed. > Key: > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager > Value Name: > SafeDllSearchMode > Data: > 0x1 Yeah, but won't this break a lot of programs that install their DLL's in their own directories by design, so that they may be installed by users without administrative privileges on older versions of Windows? I know that Windows XP "shadows" %WINDIR% under "Documents and Settings\username", but this is a recent development, and there are still an awful lot of programs which rely on the 'program directory first' search order. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence every third, but it still comprehensible.
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