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Just discovered, that opening a command prompt in Win7, and then selecting a file in Explorer, and dragging that file to the command prompt, no longer automatically pastes the path to that file. What a PITA!
Just discovered, that opening a command prompt in Win7, and then selecting a file in Explorer, and dragging that file to the command prompt, no longer automatically pastes the path to that file. What a PITA!
Larry, it works just fine in a normal command prompt. The only case where it doesn't work is when you're running the command prompt with admin privileges, and that's due to application privilege separation keeping Explorer (a user-level process) from interacting with the command prompt (an admin-level process).
When a Command Prompt Box is opened clicking on the C: at the top left brinks down the properties menu and edit mode can be configured.
The current text in the copy buffer can be inserted into the box by right clicking in the box. I.e. if a file location was copied before (right click, and copy on an icon) right clicking into the box would insert the File location.
Larry, it works just fine in a normal command prompt. The only case where it doesn't work is when you're running the command prompt with admin privileges, and that's due to application privilege separation keeping Explorer (a user-level process) from interacting with the command prompt (an admin-level process).
Its not so retarded after all, is it?
For this particular problem, yes, yes it is.
No its not. And please, dont bother trying to explain why you think it is so, I really dont care...
There's nothing stupid about keeping a user-level process from interacting with an admin-level processo, IMHO.Which is dumb. The shell should be running as admin, not the terminal window in which it's displaying.
There's nothing stupid about keeping a user-level process from interacting with an admin-level processo, IMHO.
This is as good as it gets until someone at Microsoft invents sudo.
Runas is to sudo as EMacs is to Pico. Both can do the same thing, but goodness is runas an absolute bitch to use when all you want to do is run a simple command as root/admin.They have sudo, it's called runas. The thing that needs fixed is CSRSS.
Runas is to sudo as EMacs is to Pico. Both can do the same thing, but goodness is runas an absolute bitch to use when all you want to do is run a simple command as root/admin.