Re: Rename Administrator.WORKSTATION folder?

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From: GAlan (gregg1_at_NOCANNEDMEAT.valint.net)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:09:26 -0000

"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in
news:ebEhJjgrEHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:

> You didn't format the drive before the reinstall. These articles may
> help.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314045
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296834
>

There were files on the drive I'd salvaged from the original drive
that was going bad. Couldn't format the drive with no way to
save those files.

Microsoft just needs to fix this "feature" of creating new
folders under Documents and Settings when not doing a 100%
squeaky clean install.

With 95 and 98, installing Windows over itself is an often
useful way to fix many problems.

With 2000, it's 1/3 "nuke and pave" where it totally wipes
the WINNT directory tree, 1/3 9x style "over-install" where it
simply overwrites Windows' files in the Program Files tree,
and 1/3 creating problems with new folders in
Documents and Settings.

Hopefully I can fix the thing without having to reinstall it
all again.

And brickbats to Netscape for making their installer incompatable
with a non-default Administrator folder name!

What I'd love to know is how a system that had just the night
before been running fine and properly shut down, no install
cleanup or anything else pending for the next boot, blow its
own Registry to bits while simply starting up? It was the
Software section it was complaining about.

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