What file extensions are considered to be executable?
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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 15 Apr 2010 16:13 Folks I''m looking at cleaning up some logic dealing with starting up an exe via Shell. I'm wondering what other file extensions are considered to be executable? Obviously exe. What about com, bat, cmd and possibly vbs? That said who creates coms these days? Also I think pif and scr but those I will ignore as they aren't relevant to me and are more virus file extensions these days. There are so many hits on Shell at MSDN i don't know where to start. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Jeff Johnson on 15 Apr 2010 16:20 "Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:2ises5p97elg3qibp5d1hfnagdjl5f0ums(a)4ax.com... > I''m looking at cleaning up some logic dealing with starting up an exe > via Shell. I'm wondering what other file extensions are considered to > be executable? > > Obviously exe. What about com, bat, cmd and possibly vbs? That said > who creates coms these days? Also I think pif and scr but those I > will ignore as they aren't relevant to me and are more virus file > extensions these days. > > There are so many hits on Shell at MSDN i don't know where to start. Well, if you're going to consider .vbs then consider .js as well. There's also something called a "shell scrap" with extension .shs.
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 16:44 Tony Toews [MVP] wrote: > I''m looking at cleaning up some logic dealing with starting up an exe > via Shell. I'm wondering what other file extensions are considered to > be executable? It varies from machine to machine, of course... C:\>set pathext PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC See also: http://vb.mvps.org/samples/Which/ -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 16:48 Tony Toews [MVP] wrote: > I''m looking at cleaning up some logic dealing with starting up an exe > via Shell. I'm wondering what other file extensions are considered to > be executable? This is actually the logic I used in that Which sample: ' Find order of executable file extensions. pathext = Environ("PATHEXT") If Len(pathext) = 0 Then ' Undefined? Up to us! pathext = ".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD" End If Before the PATHEXT e-var was introduced, the 4-element default I provided was pretty much the defacto (if not hardcoded) standard, I believe. Note this string also provides the priority order for execution, if two files with the same base name exist at the same point in the search path. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 16:51
Jeff Johnson wrote: > also something called a "shell scrap" with extension .shs. Are those actually executables, or just datafiles that load into some other executable? I'm almost totally ignorant of those critters, obviously. Looking in my (Win7) registry, that extension isn't even listed, either. Huh. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org |