Can someone explain a change in Comspec?

[RBraverman]

I've been rebuilding my desktop - as some of you are aware - and just ran into a problem that an hour later and an image restore I found the solution but can not understand the problem:

I had slipped when adding to the path in advanced settings, and added the path it to the end of the comspec.

Well when - after many programs re-installed I tried to run one of my many .cmd files, it claimed the file did not exist. BUT the program would run it I ran it as admin - that is what I do not understand.

Can someone explain why the admin could find a "missing" comspec, but a user with admin privileges could not.

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It just happened again, right after I tried to run RDS, BUT this time the comspec was fine - a reboot, thankfully, fixed it.

ANY ideas?

 

[samuria]

Open a CMD prompt type.

Set


it will list all the details of path etc then do it as admin is the path different?

 

[RBraverman]

Open a CMD prompt type.

Set


it will list all the details of path etc then do it as admin is the path different?

No they aren't. The paths are slightly different (as one would expect), one program is still being installed, and the home directory's are different. That's it.