Re: Force Feeding

[dim () XS4ALL NL (Dimitry Andric)]

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On 2000-06-24 at 17:58 David LeBlanc wrote:

> This is Win9x specific, and although you can generally count on NT
> 4.0 having a c:\temp, Win2k has per-user temp directories, which
> complicate this somewhat, and neither c:\temp or c:\windows\temp
> normally exist.

Sorry, but under Win2k you DO have a %SystemRoot%\Temp folder (so
usually that's C:\WINNT\Temp), and the system environment variable
TEMP and TMP are by default set to that directory. This is to prevent
the %SystemRoot% directory from cluttering up with temp files from
services and other system processes (as in NT4).

Maybe it is best to set permissions for any Temp dir as "Creator
Owner: Full Control" only, or as you suggest, even removing the
Execute permission. I fear that might break some legitimate software
though; most installation programs (i.e. InstallShield, Wise) use the
Temp directory to run subcomponents of their install engines.

Cheers,
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