Thanks you all for the replies. Achim writes: > What goes still unanswered is if that's the only > place Windows ever looks for those files. I guess yes, but I can't find > no positive confirmation.
Sorry not sure what you mean. Henri's link shows file system redirection does not apply to %windir%\system32\drivers\etc, therefore there are no other places to 'look for those files' - if 'other places' is meant to be places caused by file system redirection. Henri's link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa384187%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Thanks. David. On 22 January 2016 at 03:53, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> wrote: > Henri writes: >> Yes, your proposal will work ... BECAUSE in that specific case, redirection >> will be switched OFF (hey, study the URL that I posted). > > Yes, I've read that. What goes still unanswered is if that's the only > place Windows ever looks for those files. I guess yes, but I can't find > no positive confirmation. > >> Btw, Microsoft thinks the "SysNative nonsense" a necessity; it even patched >> XP in order to introduce that nonsense ... > > I'm sure they think that and there's probably a PowerPoint with lots of > bullet points that says so. But I've yet to meet anyone who thinks it > was a bright idea after running into it unexpectedly. If anything, MS > themselves couldn't make it work without those exceptions whose > documentation is not easy to find. > > > Regards, > Achim. > -- > +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ > > Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: > http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple