Re: How do I rename WINDOWS directory to Windows

From: Sam Kerracher (samkerracher_at_tiscali.co.uk)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:19:15 +0100

So do you know how to rename the WINDOWS folder then?

"Alex Nichol" <alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote in message
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>V Green wrote:
>
>>Yeah, but what about his apps? The OS may not care,
>>but I have seen some REALLY bad application
>>programming that may well actually think that
>>WINDOWS <> Windows (on a byte/bit level, that is actually
>>true).
>
> Those apps though will only access the fundamental directory entry,
> which is in Upper case anyway, the lower case 'Long file name' would be
> produced by adding additional entries to it. So anything seeking
> WINDOWS would still find it. Done this way round; Upper to lower, I
> think it would work. But if I were to try (which I can't as this
> system is mixed case already), I would make very sure I had a secure
> drive image to restore if it failed.
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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