Re: Changing WINNT folder

From: Alex K. Angelopoulos \(MVP\) (alexangelopoulos-online@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/06/02 

From: "Alex K. Angelopoulos \(MVP\)" <alexangelopoulos-online@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:15:08 -0500

None which is easy; a lot of software writes a static name to the registry
instead of using the %WINDIR% and %SYSTEMROOT% variables.

You can try exporting the entire registry, and changing all instances of the
string "c:\winnt" to "c:\win2k" in bulk, then re-importing it. You will get a
lot of errors while doing that. You can then edit the "boot.ini" file to point
to "\win2k" instead of "\winnt". I would also initially leave a second copy of
the entire "winnt" folder just in case.

An alternative might be Partition Magic or Server Magic. I don't recall for
certain, but it may have the ability to do an automated rename of a system
folder like that. In any case, you may still have INI files lying around that
reference the "\winnt" location.

BTW, doing this in and of itself is not a very significant security measure, and
when you consider the amount of effort and the risk involved, is probably
counterproductive in terms of trying to ensure data safety.

"Fazil" <fberber@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:075301c1f47f$fadfcf00$9ae62ecf@tkmsftngxa02...
> Hi Guys,
>
> As you know default installation folder is WINNT. But I
> want to change this name and folder to WIN2K.
> Do you know anyway to change this folder name from WINNT
> to WIN2K and keep server running after changing name.
>
> Thanks for help

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