Re: Computer Management

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Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:48:20 -0700

It's never a good idea to copy files from a different OS and XP won't allow
you to replace system files. Upon reboot it will simply revert to the XP
file. What about simply creating a shortcut to msinfo32.exe on the desktop.

I don't know why it was changed, though it appears they wanted System
Information integrated with the Help system but that's pure speculation on
my part. I didn't use Win2k but in Windows 9x you either made a shortcut to
msinfo32 or you had to navigate the Start Menu or use the run command to
access this applet. I'm not sure what steps you need to do now that you
didn't do in Win2k but it would seem a desktop or taskbar shortcut would
resolve the issue.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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"yyyg718" <yyyg718@discussions.microsoft.com.> wrote in message 
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> I appologize I was not aware of that.
>
> Yes I know you can run msinfo32 from run command but it is much less
> convient than the previous way of doing it.  With the seperation of the 
> two
> not if I need to know system information of a system I am troubleshooting 
> I
> am required to do 8 steps instead of 3 and swap between applications when 
> in
> the begining it was all in one and on top of that if I were to be 
> comparing
> systems it would become even more of a headache.
> Is there any perticuar reason why they were seperated?  Is there any 
> reason
> I should not copy the old dll from win2k?
>
> Kirk 

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