Re: Windows within Windows
From: Richard (hawkinsfamily3_at_DIGITbtinternet.com)
Date: 05/23/04
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Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 22:56:47 +0000 (UTC)
Thanks Rick.
I get PATH =
D:\WINDOWS\System32;D\WINDOWS;D:WINDOWS\System32\WBEM;C:\WINDOWS.000;C:
WINDOWS.000\COMMAND I am getting lost !! What now ?
Richard.
.
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Richard,
>
> Start/run cmd
>
> From the prompt, run PATH
>
> This should tell you where the system files are seen to be.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
> Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Richard" <hawkinsfamily3@DIGITbtinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:c8r2u3$5c8$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> >
> > "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:%23OZpnmPQEHA.3232@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi Richard,
> >>
> >> No, it's not normal. Any chance that your reinstalled Windows at some
> > point?
> >> It shouldn't be harmful to leave it as is (winxp does not suffer from
the
> >> same dll hell as did earlier versions of windows).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best of Luck,
> >>
> >> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
> >> Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
> >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> >> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
> >>
> >> "Richard" <hawkinsfamily3@DIGITbtinternet.com> wrote in message
> >> news:c8qlpp$8mo$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> >> > Exploring my D drive, where XP Home is installed, I find within the
> >> > Windows
> >> > XP folder another Windows folder which also contains a lot of XP
files.
> >> >
> >> > Running a program to find duplicate files finds several thousand .
> > Typical
> >> > paths are D:/ Windows/xxxx. with duplicates under D;/ Windows/
> >> > Windows/xxxx.
> >> >
> >> > Is it normal to have a Windows folder within Windows and all these
> >> > duplicates ? If they are not supposed to be there would it be
> >> > worthwhile
> >> > deleting them ? I would also like to know how the duplicates might
have
> >> > occurred.
> >> >
> >> > Richard.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I did have a problem a while back and I did a repair install which got
me
> > going again. Since then I checked out my system back up by restoring
> > everything to a new hard drive . I don't know at what point the extra XP
> > files were created.
> >
> > As everything is working normally even with the duplications I may well
> > leave things as they are. However since I have a backup image of the
> > complete system I am tempted to have a go at deleting the extra XP files
> > or
> > possibly just renaming the Windows within Windows folder or even
deleting
> > it
> > to see what happens.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> >
>
>
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