Irritating Win XP problems

[Allan J. Wotherspoon]

I''ve just upgraded from Win 98SE to Win XP and I have run into a
number of irritating problems. I am running a 700mz Athalon with
384mb of RAM. I did a clean install to my system partition after
reformatting it.

Problem 1. I've used TweekUI to switch the default installation path
for new programs from C:\Program Files to E:\Program Files, but
whenever I install a new program it defaults to C rather than E drive.
I've checked the registry and I can't see anything amiss.

Problem 2. My icons keep switching to the generic windows icons.
When I try to change them back I first get a message that the .exe
file contains no icons then a message that the file
%systemroot%\system32\SHELL32.dll contains no icons. The frustrating
thing is that sometimes it works and I either get the icons I am
supposed to get or I am able to select them, either from the
appropriate .exe file or the shell32,dll file.

I checked the knowledge base on this issue and the only hit was
something that occurred in Win95.

I've tried doing a repair install, but the problems persist.

Help!

Thanks,

Allan

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:31 -0800, Allan J.
Wotherspoon > wrote:

|Problem 1. I've used TweekUI to switch the default installation path
|for new programs from C:\Program Files to E:\Program Files

I remember only being able to change OS default
installation path- where XP is. If u changed it to E
that would explain SHELL32 problem 2.

I may be wrong tho. Read Tweak carefully.
HTH - Larry

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.