Applications don't load from the working directory first by default.
But they do load from the working directory by default [0] and until XP SP2 they put it before system32 in the search order [1] by default.
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic...
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic...
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But they do load from the working directory by default [0] and until XP SP2 they put it before system32 in the search order [1] by default.
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic...
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic...