FIX: Running msdev /useenv Once Causes Environment To Be Used Permanently

• Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Once you run Developer Studio with the /USEENV switch it always uses the environment specified in the Control Panel System applet. Developer Studio does not default back to using the settings specified in the Directories tab under Options and off of the Tools menu. This happens even if you later run Developer Studio without the /USEENV switch.

Developer Studio should use the environment specified in the Directories tab under Options and off of the Tools menu when the /USEENV switch is not specified.

RESOLUTION

Upgrade to the latest Visual Studio service pack.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbservicepack kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: May 19, 1999