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.
Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr
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Re: Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr
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.
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.
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Re: Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr
Thanks, Tim. I definitely need built-in safeguards like that kind of internal data filter.
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Re: Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr
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.
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.
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Re: Scary things showed up in report Unused Images - bootmgr
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...Alexander Halser wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 10:07 pm 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.
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.