Re: how does windows find java.exe?

Roedy Green (see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:


: There is a way of putting any file no matter where it is, on the path
: by creating a registry entry. See
: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/registry.html

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths

but I don't think that is quite the same putting it on the path.

The registry entry makes them visible to the START command, as in

C:> START program-not-in-PATH-but-is-in-REGISTRY.exe


But if you simply type the name of a command as in

C:> PROGRAM.exe

then it must be either in the current directory or in a directory listed
in the PATH environment variable. (Though some entries in the registry do
control which directories are listed in each user's PATH variable.)

$0.10
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