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A machine with two copies of XP installed...
A friend has a PC with two copies of Win XP installed - there's what I'm
told is a 'broken'/'corrupted'/infected - no one seems sure - copy of XP Home in C:\WINDOWS\, and a working XP Pro in C:\WINDOW2\. C:\boot.ini mentions both; the latter is the default. This is a machine where no-one has kept a record of what software has been installed when, nor how anything has been configured. I'm trying to bring order to chaos. I'm considering renaming C:\WINDOWS to something like C:\WINDOWS-to-be-deleted-soon so that if the machine still runs ok that set of files can be got rid of in due course. If I do this do I need at this stage to remove the line in boot.ini that refers to that version of Windows? Also, how sure can I be that Windows itself is careful enough only to load files from / update files in %systemroot% rather than "C:\WINDOWS\" explicitly? I suppose that apps-wise I can't be sure that none references C:\WINDOWS directly either, but at least with apps I should be able to uninstall/ reinstall/ reset/ reconfigure things as needed... Also, if the rename (and/or eventual deletion of C:\WINDOWS) works, would it later be safe to rename C:\WINDOW2 to C:\WINDOWS ? I presume that would only be possible in safe mode or with a linux live CD? Clearly boot.ini would need to be updated at the same time - or perhaps I could have two lines in boot.ini both with the same parameters apart from the folder name so that one would always match the available folder? All advice gratefully received... -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. Email sent to my from-address will be deleted. Instead, please reply to replacing "aaa" by "284". |
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