Running Application With Different Environment Variables

How do I configure a desktop application icon in Windows 2003 so that it
will run the application with a different environment path than the default?

I have a misbehaving application (Quickbooks 2007) that is grabbing a copy
of a DLL from the wrong folder, and I want to experiment with forcing it to
load DLLs from its own working folder before it tries to grab the same named
files from SYSTEM32.

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W

 

Maybe this link helps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376307.aspx



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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"W" wrote:
> How do I configure a desktop application icon in Windows 2003 so that it
> will run the application with a different environment path than the
> default?
>
> I have a misbehaving application (Quickbooks 2007) that is grabbing a copy
> of a DLL from the wrong folder, and I want to experiment with forcing it
> to load DLLs from its own working folder before it tries to grab the same
> named files from SYSTEM32.
>
> --
> W
>

 

"W" <persistentone@spamarrest.com> wrote in message
news:dL2dnZ-xx8OLnYvXnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@giganews.com...
> How do I configure a desktop application icon in Windows 2003 so that it
> will run the application with a different environment path than the
> default?
>
> I have a misbehaving application (Quickbooks 2007) that is grabbing a copy
> of a DLL from the wrong folder, and I want to experiment with forcing it
> to load DLLs from its own working folder before it tries to grab the same
> named files from SYSTEM32.
>
> --
> W

Instead of invoking the application directly, invoke it via a batch file
like so:
@echo off
set path={set the desired path here}
start /b "Name of App" "Path+Name of Executable"