Re: Changing WINNT folder

From: Richard Dakin (nospam@nospam.com)
Date: 05/13/02 

From: Richard Dakin <nospam@nospam.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:18:50 +0000 (UTC)

On Sun, 12 May 2002 23:02:20 GMT, "V4"
<dontmailme@overyonderblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"Richard Dakin" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:7cicdu4p09vf45tpqmh2alckel6hffu9os@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 5 May 2002 14:58:25 -0700, "Fazil" <fberber@softhome.net> wrote:
>>
>> >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
>>
>> I was curious as to why anyone would consider this?

>Security trick - like renaming admin account name.

It's not much of one IMO. It's not difficult finding the system dir on a
machine when it's named something else.

Richard Dakin
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