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Short names not working
Posted by Joe Smith on October 12th, 2005


I get the impression that my XP Pro is not able to handle short file
names properly.

I have got "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" set to '0' in
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem]


But I get this error message sometimes when I use Copernic Desktop
Search:

>----------- START -----------
>RUNDLL [#32770]
>Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\Copernic
>The specified module could not be found.
>----------- END -----------



I tried uninstalling but the uninstall program failed when it tried
to run this:

Execute: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe" C:\PROGRA~1\Copernic
Desktop Search\COPERN~2.DLL,UninstallDll

Posted by Detlev Dreyer on October 12th, 2005


Joe Smith <joe@nomail.com> wrote:

> I get the impression that my XP Pro is not able to handle short file
> names properly.


This is not the case.

> But I get this error message sometimes when I use Copernic Desktop
> Search:
> ...
>> Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\Copernic
>> The specified module could not be found.


Did you check if that folder exists? Most likely, that folder is
named "Copernic Desktop Search" rather than "Copernic". In this
case, "Copernic" is part of the long filename, the short name would
be COPERN~1 or similar.

> I tried uninstalling but the uninstall program failed when it tried
> to run this:
>
> Execute: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe" C:\PROGRA~1\Copernic
> Desktop Search\COPERN~2.DLL,UninstallDll


Actually, there shouldn't be any "uninstall program" required when
running that command slightly modified from the Start > Run: line.
Use "DIR /x" in order to find out the short foldername (ie. COPERN~1)
and change this string to C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\COPERN~1\COPERN~2.DLL,UninstallDll (example, one line only)

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