Re: how does windows find java.exe?

Roedy Green (see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: On 26 Jun 2007 14:22:42 -0800, yf110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Malcolm
: Dew-Jones) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

: >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.

: IIRC I have added programs to the App Paths and then I can invoke them
: with just xxxx on the command line in 4NT. Don't recall about
: xxxx.exe.

This is XP, and so far it still doesn't work for me, I can't run programs
already listed there (except using START) with or without the extension.

The existing entries are keys, so I added a string value directly at that
level, but that didn't work either, even after logout and login.

Perhaps there's some other setting that must be toggled to enable this.

.

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