PATH environment variable hosed, and all normal files need Administrator access (??!)
- From: "Jon Davis" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:09:56 -0700
Using Windows Server 2008 as a developer workstation, with all recent updates installed.
If I open a command prompt (cmd.exe) as myself, the global PATH variable is populated. But it doesn't do much good because, as a developer and power user, I cannot do anything I'd normally do, like "defrag" because you must run cmd.exe as Administrator.
If I open a command prompt "as Administrator", the global PATH variable is NOT populated; only my profile PATH that normally gets prepended to the global PATH is populated. I had to create a setpath.bat file and paste my global PATH variable.
But that was a kludge and I'm finding normal, non-console apps not functioning correctly, such as TortoiseSVN, and Windows Server 2008 wants to lock practically every file so it's almost like it's behaving like it's elevating to Administrator but losing the PATH environment variable in the process of doing so. (Just guessing.) I have UAC disabled.
So I have two problems to resolve:
1) how do I get Administrator to behave XP-style, keeping the PATH, and
2) how do I get Windows to stop locking up my normal files as though they need Administration permission for all modify/delete actions??!
Jon
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