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How to Turn Off Windows NT Interpretation of AUTOEXEC.BAT

Article ID: 102957

Article Last Modified on 3/15/2004


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SUMMARY

In certain cases, it might be desirable to disable Windows NT's interpretation of environment variables listed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. To do this, add the following statement in front of any listed environment variables you want Windows NT to ignore:

IF NOT "%OS%"="WINDOWS_NT"

For example:

IF NOT "%OS%"="WINDOWS_NT" SET TEMP=C:\TEMP


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