Re: XP have lost the windows/inf path

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Look in the right pane for DevicePath. It should read "%SystemRoot%\inf", without the quotes. If not, double click it and edit it appropriately.

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<user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u53kxtRnGHA.4352@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

since 2 weeks, when I have to install new hardware or new network
protocole Windows XP don't knows were to search the .inf file.

In the case of new hardware I can easily give XP the path. But in the
case of network configuration to add protocle, client, service XP
returns an error and XP don't ask to give a path.

thx.
.

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