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Limitations Using SET Commands in AUTOEXEC.BAT File

Article ID: 102064

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1

This article was previously published under Q102064

SUMMARY

When you log on to a Windows NT machine, Winlogon processes the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to set your environment variables and the PATH.

However, the following restrictions apply to all SET statements:

Conditional set ("IF") statements are not processed.
Environment variables cannot be removed (unset). For example, "SET WORKDIR=" does not remove the WORKDIR environment variable.

In short, only SET and PATH statements are processed.

Additional query words: prodnt unset

Keywords: kbenv KB102064

Microsoft KB Archive/102064

Limitations Using SET Commands in AUTOEXEC.BAT File

SUMMARY