GZWHERE

Download: gzwhere.exe (32KB)

Licence: Freeware

GZWHERE searches for files in the directories specified in the PATH environment variable. It can also search for files in the directories defined in the "App Paths" registry setting for a given executable. This is useful for tracking down DLL's which may not nessessarily be in a directory specified on the path.

Useage:

GZWHERE [flags] [file] [exe file]

flags	/a search path listed in the 'AppPaths' key associated with exe file
file	Name of file to search for (can include wild cards)
exe file	Name of executable whose entry in the"AppPath" section of the registry should be included in the list of directories to search

Examples:

gzwhere shell32.dll	Searches PATH for the file 'shell32.dll'
gzwhere /a ie*.dll iexplore.exe	Searches for the file(s) matching 'ie*.dll' in the directories specified in the AppPath registry entry specified for iexplore.exe and the directories specified in the 'path' environment variable.