Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr

[Dave Gehman]

This appeared at the bottom of a full report on our project:


Web tells me if I mess around with bootmgr, my Win 10 won't boot...

Scary. I didn't move any of these 3.

"C:" has appeared in my Configuration: Project Search Path. I don't remember putting it there, but I've removed the entry.

[Tim Green]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for posting this. Of course, C:\ should never be on your project search path, but those files should also never show up there either... I'm passing this right on to the dev team.

[Dave Gehman]

Thanks, Tim. I definitely need built-in safeguards like that kind of internal data filter.

[Alexander Halser]

Funny! But nothing will happen if you click on that button, except for an error dialog that Help+Manual could not remove these files. Most probably it cannot even remove the .BMP file in the root directory. Deleting files from the root folder requires admin rights, which H&M does not have while running normally.

The reporting of files without an extension as an unused image, however, is a small bug. We'll fix this with the next update. It's not really critical and the upside is: without this bug you'd never learned that the root folder C:\ is in your search path.

[Dave Gehman]

It's not really critical and the upside is: without this bug you'd never learned that the root folder C:\ is in your search path.

Glad that it wouldn't have deleted the files, but I almost never experiment when Microsoft stuff is involved, in the same way I'd never pick up a live bomb...

It does remain a mystery around how C:\ got in the search path. It wasn't "C:\" but just "C" -- I stumbled my way through DOS all those years ago, so I know that "C" isn't a path.