C:\WINDOWS vs C:\WINNT

[Howard Jeter]

Have two computers in household, both running Windows XP
Home eddition.

One shows the Windows Directory as C:\WINDOWS. The other
shows it as C:\WINNT.

How did the second one end up with WINNT and what is
WINNT?

Howard

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

C:\WinNT was an upgrade from Windows 2000. C:\Windows was a clean install!

"Howard Jeter" > wrote in message
...
> Have two computers in household, both running Windows XP
> Home eddition.
>
> One shows the Windows Directory as C:\WINDOWS. The other
> shows it as C:\WINNT.
>
> How did the second one end up with WINNT and what is
> WINNT?
>
> Howard
>

[Howard Jeter]

More complicated than that. The computer with the WINNT
was purchased new from Gateway and was supposed to have XP
home edition on it. When I start the computer, it says
it's loading XP home edition. However, there is no Windows
folder listed in the files, just the WINNT folder.

Howard
>-----Original Message-----
>C:\WinNT was an upgrade from Windows 2000. C:\Windows was
a clean install!
>
>"Howard Jeter" > wrote in message
...
>> Have two computers in household, both running Windows XP
>> Home eddition.
>>
>> One shows the Windows Directory as C:\WINDOWS. The other
>> shows it as C:\WINNT.
>>
>> How did the second one end up with WINNT and what is
>> WINNT?
>>
>> Howard
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Howard Jeter]

Got the answer from Gateway's online chat service.
There are two folders of interest, C:\WINDOWS, and
C:\WINDOWS\System32. The default name is WINNT with the
option at installation of changing it to WINDOWS. It was
changed on one computer and not the other.

Howard

>-----Original Message-----
>C:\WinNT was an upgrade from Windows 2000. C:\Windows was
a clean install!
>
>"Howard Jeter" > wrote in message
...
>> Have two computers in household, both running Windows XP
>> Home eddition.
>>
>> One shows the Windows Directory as C:\WINDOWS. The other
>> shows it as C:\WINNT.
>>
>> How did the second one end up with WINNT and what is
>> WINNT?
>>
>> Howard
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

OEMs can do it any way they want. Crusty old fart rat ******* was
talking about the retail CD install.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows

(I think I put too many adjectives in Crusty's name :-)

"Howard Jeter" > wrote in
message ...

> More complicated than that. The computer with the WINNT
> was purchased new from Gateway and was supposed to have XP
> home edition on it. When I start the computer, it says
> it's loading XP home edition. However, there is no Windows
> folder listed in the files, just the WINNT folder.
>
> Howard
> >-----Original Message-----
> >C:\WinNT was an upgrade from Windows 2000. C:\Windows was
> a clean install!
> >
> >"Howard Jeter" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Have two computers in household, both running Windows XP
> >> Home eddition.
> >>
> >> One shows the Windows Directory as C:\WINDOWS. The other
> >> shows it as C:\WINNT.
> >>
> >> How did the second one end up with WINNT and what is
> >> WINNT?
> >>
> >> Howard
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >