Error spawning 'cmd.exe'

VS2005
Windows XP Professional SP2

I have been running VS2005 for a few months without a problem now.
Today I was trying to track down GDI memory leaks by stepping through my app
while watching the numbers in task manager (taskmgr.exe) .
While doing this I was applying code changes while the app was still
running.
The next time I tried to compile it I got the message

Error spawning 'cmd.exe'

A google search found a solution of putting these paths in the VC's search
directories ...

$(SystemRoot)\System32
$(SystemRoot)
$(SystemRoot)\System32\wbem

This worked, but this seems to be a bit of a patch rather than a solution.
I don't imagine that these paths were part of the original install and that
VS was finding cmd.exe without them?
Has something mucked up me system variables? (Something I know nothing
about).

Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com


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