Hi Agnes,

Having been in various situations, thousands of miles from land, where your ability to make quick decisions that your life depends on, you quickly come to understand the true meaning of KISS. It is something that I try to apply to all things that I do, and I also think it is a good principle for all to follow.


>Vieleicht was? Es ist etwas technisch, wenn man versucht Fehler zu berichtigen, die man aus Unkenntnis erzeugt (was ich immer gerne tue), und dabei die Sprache wechselt sich aber auf Andeutungen beschränkt, (da hier die Ebene der möglichen Mißverständnisse verdoppelt wird) jedoch einfach, wenn man beim Fehler bleibt. Ich sehe jedoch nicht ganz was falsch ist. (^.´)
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>Agnes
>>vielleicht
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>>>Neil
>>>>Agnes,
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>>>><snip>KISS is a good approach but one could be a simple too. ::)
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>>>>etwas fehlt in der Übersetzung
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>>> or do I need to improve my english?
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>>>>Also there are quite a few viruses that actively look for WSH once they have gained access to a machine, disabling WSH just lessens the available work area.
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>>>Again, it's not my decission what customer is running on his system. I avoid WSH but this is something I do with viruses too (The last I found on one of my comps was Cascade, and even those wasn't copied to the hard drive)
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>>>Agnes
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>>>>>Neil,
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>>>>>KISS is a good approach but one could be a simple too. ::)
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>>>>>So I will give you some simple answers:
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>>>>>I newtwork connection is broken, all may databases applications will stop because the data is stored in some way on a server.
>>>>>I do not program for me, but for people that will pay me for it. I have no idea about there environment nor any change they will do.
>>>>>I have no idea if the folder is named "Desktop" under all languages. It seems to be the same under english and german, but other folders use differnent names under german and english.
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>>>>>I agree on the use of WSH (but only out of paranoia, there are simpler ideas to miss infections), but to get the paths there might be a API too. (My dispute an a other branch of this thread was about creating a .lnk)
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>>>>>Agnes
>>>>>>Hi Agnes,
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>>>>>>Yes I know powertoys, I have also seen what happens when the desktop is redirected to the network and you loose the network connection.
>>>>>>If you want the same environment, just use GETENV("ALLUSERSPROFILE") + "\DESKTOP\", I work on the KISS principle Keep It Simple Stupid, enough can go wrong with windows without adding complexity to the user environment.
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>>>>>>Anyway the one line of code "GETENV("USERPROFILE") + "\DESKTOP\"" is a lot better than using WSH, as I always disable it due to the inherent security concerns if it is running.