Re: Last Good Folder
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"Irish" <Irish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In trying to remove MSN Explorer, Win games (Freecell, etc,) and some
>accessories were lost also. I added the games and accessories back through
>the add/remove windows compnents and my operating CD, but instead of the
>games being reinstalled into the Win>sys32 folder they are now in a Win>Last
>Good>Sys32 folder. Whats that all about? Why were they not installed back
>into the sys32 folder?
LastGood is for the recovery option to boot to the "Last known good
configuration" during startup. It is by design, that files from the
SYSTEM32 folder are copied to this folder.
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