Re: How do I rename WINDOWS directory to Windows

Les
Date: 09/07/04


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 12:07:29 -0500

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:55:30 +0100, Alex Nichol
<alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote:

>Sam Kerracher wrote:
>
>>I am not bothered about trashing the system, have all my files and settings
>>backed up on another hard drive, and it's kinda why I am looking into
>>renaming this folder. It's only a change of upper to lowercase so it
>>shouldn't harm it.
>
>Well then try in an Explorer window, right click and Rename. That may
>well refuse on a base system folder like this, as any general rename of
>the folder certainly *will* cause trouble. So in a DOS type command
>window (say after a reboot to a menu and using Safe Mode, Command
>Prompt), try REN there

Actually you can't do it in Explorer because You don't get the rename
option when you right click the Windows folder.



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