On Jan 30, 2008 7:37 PM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um - so what happens when you upgrade a Windows NT box to Windows 2000 to > Windows 2003? It'll still be using winnt.
Yah, which might make things interesting. Indeed, I recall seeing at least one MSKB article about just that. Some update/add-on/whatever assumed Windows 2003 meant C:\WINDOWS and so looked in the wrong place on an upgraded system. There was a fix, though I don't recall the details. Likely either a registry tweak or reissued update. > Personally I haven't seen anything major stop working because I didn't use > c:\windows. Well, for the record, I've never seen anything major (from Microsoft) stop working because of it, either. I expect smaller or more esoteric stuff is more likely to not get well tested, or be given to less savvy teams inside Microsoft. Now, third-party software, that's another thing entirely. Especially back when original Windows (not the NT line) was more common; a lot of crappy third party vendors assumed C:\WINDOWS for everything. But I'm sure we all know there's no limit to how *bad* software can get. :) -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
