Question About Hjt Entrys

[shanenin]

When looking at hjt logs you see lots of entrys for directorys like:

PROGRA~1progra~1

My first thought is they are abbreviations, but that does not really make sense. Couold you explain what they mean?

[shanenin]

I found this

Microsoft filenames

The tilde was part of Microsoft's name mangling scheme when it developed the VFAT filesystem. This upgrade introduced long filenames to Microsoft Windows, and permitted additional characters (such as the space) to be part of filenames, which were prohibited in previous versions. Programs written prior to this development could only access filenames in the so-called 8.3 format—the filenames consisted of a maximum of eight alphanumeric characters, followed by a period, followed by three more alphanumeric characters. In order to permit these legacy programs to access files in the VFAT filesystem, each file had to be given two names—one long, more descriptive one, and one that conformed to the 8.3 format. This was accomplished with a name-mangling scheme in which the first six characters of the filename are followed by a tilde and a digit. For example, "Program Files" becomes "PROGRA~1".

[Matt]

Yep, its basically an abbreviation. For example, with delete on reboot, PendingFileRenameOperations can only handle 8.3 file names/paths.

[Skate_Punk_21]

Yep, its basically an abbreviation. For example, with delete on reboot, PendingFileRenameOperations can only handle 8.3 file names/paths.

Actually, thats only true for 9x, NT can hold either. Edited July 16, 2006 by Skate_Punk_21