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To: Bush2000
"Erg, let's try this again. The ActiveX control does not know the absolute path to "C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Local Settings\Temp" because it lacks knowledge of who the "[USER]" is."

Virus writers will guess that the user is Admin and hit 80% of all home XP users correctly, no?!

48 posted on 01/28/2004 5:02:23 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
You can just use %username% in place of the username, that's a system variable. It even works in file explorer and in the dos cmd.exe command line.
52 posted on 01/28/2004 5:41:14 PM PST by adam_az (Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
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