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Peegee
07-13-2005, 03:47 PM
Is it difficult? Off hand I'm thinking I need to edit boot.ini, then there's the registry references to $winnt, but what specifically I do not know.

What else, or is it just too tedious to do?

ps: I want to change my windows directory from windows.0 to windows. Stupid autoinstaller.

Mirage
07-13-2005, 05:03 PM
I don't recommend it. There's too much stuff you'll need to change manually.

crono_logical
07-13-2005, 06:20 PM
It's as easy as doing a fresh install :p

Endless
07-13-2005, 07:20 PM
If XP had symlinks, it'd be as easy as "ln -s windows.0 windows". In fact, there may be such a thing, I'm gonna check it out and post the result. edit: tried the UNIX services for windows, and well, symlinks only work within the shells that come with it, not the regular xp command line. So it's useless here.

crono_logical
07-13-2005, 10:21 PM
If it was symlinked though, then it'd look like you have two instances of the Windows folder :p

Endless
07-13-2005, 10:30 PM
He could delete the old one before making the symlink :p

Peegee
07-14-2005, 04:02 AM
rawr :p