To control whether NT includes AUTOEXEC.BAT’s path statement in NT’s PATH
environmental variable cut and paste the following code into paths.reg file and run it.
REGEDIT4
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LINE GOES HERE
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“ParseAutoexec”=”1”
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Set ParseAutoexec=0 if you
do NOT want autoexec’s path parsed by NT. See .REG
files for background information on .REG files.