Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
Changing
program files
to
progra~1
might also work.
--- It _might_, is true. But if you turn off short-filename generation on NT file systems to speed up NTFS performance and reduce the space needed for directory entries, it won't: ---- REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"=dword:00000001 ----
The only reason one might leave this enabled, is if one is running old programs that are not Win32 compatible.
-l
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