Antichrist77
25th July 2003 14:36 UTC

Rename a file in the $WINDIR
Hi,

i have a fuc*ing probelm with NSIS! I want to rename the notepad.exe to notepad2.exe but my script don't work because the compiler says: "$WINDIR" is a unkown variable??? In the docs I have read that "$WINDIR is the windows directory (usually C:\windows or C:\winnt but detected at runtime)". Please write a example script! Not just one parse.

Thx

kichik
25th July 2003 14:42 UTC

What's the version of NSIS you are using? What is the exact line you used to rename the file?

Afrow UK
25th July 2003 14:43 UTC

You must be using it in your script wrongly, because if $WINDIR was and unknown variable and you used it in a dir path, it wouldn't matter anyway.

Should be:
Rename "$WINDIR\notepad.exe" "$WINDIR\notepad2.exe"

-Stu

Brummelchen
25th July 2003 16:45 UTC

be concious that WinXP repairs missing files on renaming/deleting or moving them

>> I want to rename the notepad.exe to notepad2.exe

W2k too i think

you first have to delete (better replace) notepad.exe in the program cache ($sysdir\dllcache) - then do your action.

Antichrist77
25th July 2003 17:18 UTC

@Afrow UK

Hi ;),

big thx to you! I have forget the " " :) thats why it don't work... Now it works perfectly!


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Antichrist