Re: [Full-disclosure] Window's O/S

From: Andres Tarasco (atarasco_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:24:01 +0100
To: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>

    Hi,

    You are right Brian (
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/configuration/clientreg/clientregistrylayout.asp)
    The following .reg file should fix the problem. Save it as IE_path.reg and
    double click on it:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source
    Editor\Editor Name]
    @="c:\\windows\\system32\\notepad.exe"

    regards,

    Andres Tarasco

    2005/11/24, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>:
    >
    > Cassidy Macfarlane wrote:
    >
    > > This seems to be a 'nearest path' issue - iexplore would use notepad.exe
    > > to 'view source' by default, so when you choose to 'view source',
    > > Windows looks to the PATH variable to find notepad.
    >
    > IE first looks for the key
    >
    > HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name
    >
    > If present, it uses its value as the name of the editor to launch. If
    > absent it seems to use a hardcoded default of just "notepad" without any
    > qualifying path.
    >
    > It then searches starting on the desktop (and then presumably on the
    > path) to find "notepad.*". The first hit that it finds, it uses the
    > standard shell launch method based on the class. In this case that
    > turns out to be HKCR\Folder\shell\open, which launches explorer.
    >
    > If you change the above "Editor Name" key to something with a qualified
    > path such as "c:\winxp\system32\notepad.exe" you get notepad despite a
    > folder on the desktop named notepad. Similarly, if you set the above
    > key to an unqualified "foobar" and have a folder named foobar on the
    > desktop, it gets opened. There's nothing special about "notepad" other
    > than that's IE's built-in default.
    >
    > Brian
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