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    Grin What if I wanted to change my windows default directory?

    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.

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    I don't recommend it. There's too much stuff you'll need to change manually.
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    It's as easy as doing a fresh install
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    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.
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    If it was symlinked though, then it'd look like you have two instances of the Windows folder
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    He could delete the old one before making the symlink

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