Re: WINNT fonts

From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:13:16 -0500

\WINNT is the default install name for either a WinNT or a W2k system
directory. \WINNT is not a file, it is a Big Collection of files. If you
didn't know it, Windows 2000 is the alias of - TA DA! - NT5.0.

You may have more than one system on that drive. \WINDOWS is the default
install name for some older Windows systems, and may contain such - or
even a W2k system if it was installed by upgrading an older system. If
your \WINDOWS directory is a lot smaller than your \WINNT directory I'd
bet it contains an older smaller system, W95 or some such. It might even
be a working system.

Your C:\boot.ini file (hidden/readonly/system by default) may tell you
whether and which. To see/edit that file remove those attributes; see
Help to find out how. Read up on that file before fooling with it;
disaster lurks.

Buddy wrote:

> OK, thanks for the warning.
>
> But why do I have WINNT at all? I checked with a friend who also has
> Windows 2000, and he did not have a WINNT file at all. Mine is taking
> up more space than Windows!
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:15:17 -0500, "George Hester"
> <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Right that means if you delete C:\WINNT then you are in BIG trouble. If anything you could delete C:\Windows but definitely NOT C:\WINNT.
>
>

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