Timeline for Disable XP SP2+’s FQP Requirement?
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| May 17, 2015 at 0:09 | answer | added | i336_ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 16:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/521334541638590464 | ||
| Feb 5, 2013 at 20:44 | history | edited | Synetech | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:35 | comment | added | Synetech | @grawity, yes and that’s what I used on our Windows 7 laptop (which has barely any new, third-party software added). Unfortunately that won’t really help with this because I don’t want to remap files, plus, there are a wide variety of programs that I added to the other system over the last 12 years (Windiff, HxD, my own programs and countless batch files I’ve written). | |
| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:32 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | Speaking about Notepad2 specifically, @Synetech, have you heard of the "Image File Execution Options" registry key? The Notepad2 mini-installer uses it to automatically redirect all notepad.exe launches to Notepad2 – regardless of how it is launched. | |
| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:12 | comment | added | Synetech |
if a virus can modify your system path variable: , @afrazier, obviously if it can modify the high-privilege system PATH variable, then it can modify the user one as well. I haven’t tried the App Paths; it might just do the trick. I’ll test it out the next time I’m in XP. (It is really annoying that there are a dozen or so places where things like this can be located.)
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | Synetech | @Petesh, besides, many of the security patches in SP2 were to help novice users who don’t know a an infected file from their butts avoid getting in trouble. For those of us who know a little something about computers, most of these enhancements have been nothing but annoying headaches instead of helpful. | |
| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:08 | comment | added | afrazier |
if a virus can modify your system path variable: ...and your user path variable? Also, what about using the App Paths Reg Key?
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 18:07 | comment | added | Synetech |
@Petesh, first of all, who said anything about apps? I have created registry patches of my own so that I can open different files and perform different tasks. Using FQPs is not always feasible because the location may change. You may like dumping everything in C:\Program Files, but not everybody does. Using the PATH makes sense because that is what it’s there for. Second, obviously Microsoft themselves realized this “security feature” was pointless because they removed it from Vista+; e.g., in Windows 7, like in SP1, the first one works ("@"="blah.exe"1, if blah.exe is in the path.
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| Feb 4, 2013 at 17:56 | comment | added | Anya Shenanigans | No, there is no way to turn off this security fix. Seriously, if you have apps that didn't use fully qualified paths for their explorer verbs then they deserve to be broken by this change. | |
| Feb 4, 2013 at 17:27 | history | asked | Synetech | CC BY-SA 3.0 |