I get a Warning if I have Program.exe in C:\

[Pc_Madness]

I knocked up a program the other day that made use of a Manifest file so that I could get the true XP look for all of the controls in the program.

Anyway, I had Program.exe.Manifest and Program.exe in C:\ and when I restarted I got a warning message saying "There is a Program that is going to conflict with other programs" or something along those lines.

Whats this all about?

[plenderj]

Well I would hazard at guess at this.
If you're trying to access "Program Files", you can just do (from dos)

cd Program Files


So in that instance, Windows would have to recognize "Program" as a part of the folder name.
But you also have to be able to type in just "Program" to run your program.

So "Program" is ambiguous

[Aerials]

is the name program.exe absolutely necessary?

[snakeeyes1000]

cd Program Files

Really? On every computer I've used, you've had to do...

cd PROGRA~1

[Pc_Madness]

It was only for a test project that I was using, and I couldn't be bothered creating a folder for it.

[A$$Bandit]

You can use "cd Program Files" in Windows XP because they modified the MS-DOS prompt to use long file names etc.

The reason it doesn't like your program being in the root directory of the drive Windows XP is installed on, is because a) Microsoft think they own your computer, or less likely - b) that they actually care about what happens to your computer, and having the program there might cause some damage due to file conflicts.

[markman]

sma ething happened to me (I had a bad registryu string in one of my programs).
just delete it and all will be well

[Aerials]

how wise... lol

[plenderj]

Originally posted by A$$Bandit
You can use "cd Program Files" in Windows XP because they modified the MS-DOS prompt to use long file names etc.

Win2k Pro too

[Lord Orwell]

youve always been able to use long file names from the dos prompt. you just had to enclose them in quotes like this:
cd "program files"