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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: nosbm on September 23, 2005, 08:05:08 AM

Title: Windows XP path length
Post by: nosbm on September 23, 2005, 08:05:08 AM

Hello all,
Does anybody know where the maximum user defined path length is set in Windows XP Professional. As I understand the situation 255 characters is the default value, with the actual maximum being 511.

Best Regards,
nosbm

Title: Re: Windows XP path length
Post by: merlin_2 on September 23, 2005, 04:08:54 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=169888

Title: Re: Windows XP path length
Post by: nosbm on September 27, 2005, 04:28:58 AM

merlin_2,
Thank you for your response and for the link to the Microsoft article.

There is a further Microsoft article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180410/EN-US/

The difficulty that I have with both of these articles is that they do not indicate how or where the maximum path length is set. There must surely be a registry key somewhere that holds the value of the maximum path length.

I would like to check what the value is currently set at and increase to the maximum if neccessary.

Best regards,
nosbm