The Old New Thing

A brief history of the GetEnvironmentStrings functions

January 17, 2013 Jan 17, 2013 01/17/13

Raymond Chen

The Get­Environment­Strings function has a long and troubled history. The first bit of confusion is that the day it was introduced in Windows NT 3.1, it was exported funny. The UNICODE version was exported under the name Get­Environment­StringsW, but the ANSI version was exported under the name Get­Environment...