RE: Updates

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Julsie (Julsie_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:52:01 -0700

Never got such a message with Office 2003. i have very large drives so space is not a problem.dod you have any "practical" advice about making a correction or Is the advice to reformat and re install.
If i do not update at all what is the worst case scenario?

kind regards,
Jules

"M. Rajesh" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sometimes Windows will determine the best place to keep the files depending on the free space and then accordingly use that.
>
> Hope that you have seen how Office 2003 gets installed. At the end of the installation you get a message saying that office setup installed some files on the other partition for updates and recovery.
>
> and when you get SP2 later this will get removed and bundled into SP2.
> --
> Regards
> M. Rajesh
> .Net and Windows Shell MVP
> www.winxpsolution.com
>
>
> "Julsie" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your reply . I have nothing on the K drive at presnt, so why are the updates still being directed there. I am not really in the mood for a format and install. I suppose i can leave things as they are and not update. When my machine finally fails i will reformat then
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > "M. Rajesh" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > With 2 different drives holding the windows directory it is a big irreversible task. the only option will be to go for a system restore or to clean out and start from fresh.
> > > --
> > > Regards
> > > M. Rajesh
> > > .Net and Windows Shell MVP
> > > www.winxpsolution.com
> > >
> > >
> > > "Julsie" wrote:
> > >
> > > > By accident I installed a backup of M C drive into my K drive a few weeks ago. When I realised what i had done, I installed into the correct C drive and deletewd the copy of windows in my K drive.
> > > > My problem is that ever since I am unable to update my machine becasue the updates try to install into my K drive and the re*** is a mess. I then repair with mu Ghost image and am back to square 1. This way i will never be able to update !!
> > > > Can anyone help?

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