Post #1305530
2026-02-12 14:31 UTC
I have a pretty good guess. They were using ShellExecute or a similar API with only "notepad” as a name or "edit" as a verb. The search order would end up finding your shortcut first.
This would be odd behavior (the path should be be the full path and start at system32) but I don't have IE6 and Windows 95 to find the exact API lol.
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@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2026-02-12 14:55
> The search order would end up finding your shortcut first. Sure, but in my case "Notepad" was a shortcut to actual Notepad.exe. It still should have worked.