Hey folks. I have a heavily gutted customized XP that runs great but I cleaned it too much over the years and it no longer supports short file naming and spaces in the file names at certain levels. Does anyone remember the tricks or framework responsible for this so I can correct it.
what is happening now is if I try to open a file through explorer associations it will not work because the file is usually in My Documents or Program Files and the spaces throw it off. So I get errors like can not find C:\documents .. obviously because the rest after the space is missing but launching the same files in root of C: or single folder like c:\files works .. ~1 stopped working so I can't use Progra~1 etc.. I open the program and try to open the file through open it works which means it's mostly a explorer / windows type problem.
what is happening now is if I try to open a file through explorer associations it will not work because the file is usually in My Documents or Program Files and the spaces throw it off. So I get errors like can not find C:\documents .. obviously because the rest after the space is missing but launching the same files in root of C: or single folder like c:\files works .. ~1 stopped working so I can't use Progra~1 etc.. I open the program and try to open the file through open it works which means it's mostly a explorer / windows type problem.