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I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.

The "SET" command at the Command Prompt displays a list of all the
environment variables. Among those variables, there is a variable named
PATH for which the values are

Path=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN

I was under the impression that the PATH variable points towards the
system root folder C:\WINNT only but why does it point to the other
folders like system32, Wbem & MSSQL\BINN as well?

Thanks,

Arpan

 

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A clean install would have at least;
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem
the others were a result of various application installs.

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"Arpan" wrote:
|I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.
|
| The "SET" command at the Command Prompt displays a list of all the
| environment variables. Among those variables, there is a variable named
| PATH for which the values are
|
| Path=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN
|
| I was under the impression that the PATH variable points towards the
| system root folder C:\WINNT only but why does it point to the other
| folders like system32, Wbem & MSSQL\BINN as well?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Arpan
|

 

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The PATH variable lists all of the folders that Windows will search to
find executable programs when a complete filename is not specified. A
functional Windows 2000 system requires at least WINNT\System32, WINNT,
and WINNT\System32\Wbem. A system may have many more than that, depending
on what applications are installed. The path on my system lists 13
folders. The one on my machine probably has more than that.


Arpan <arpan_de@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.

> The "SET" command at the Command Prompt displays a list of all the
> environment variables. Among those variables, there is a variable named
> PATH for which the values are

> Path=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\system32\Wbem;C:\MSSQL7\BINN

> I was under the impression that the PATH variable points towards the
> system root folder C:\WINNT only but why does it point to the other
> folders like system32, Wbem & MSSQL\BINN as well?

> Thanks,

> Arpan

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