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Cary Gordon (cgordon@CERF.NET)
Wed, 15 May 1996 22:03:24 -0700

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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:12:12 -0700
To: ip-tec@library.berkeley.edu
From: Cary Gordon <cgordon@cerf.net>
Subject: Re: Question about security

JoAnn,

The best way that I know of to change the name of the Windows directory is
to do a reinstall into a directory with another name. It just makes things
a lot easier to do this. Otherwise, do be certain to include your new
Windows directory in your path statement.

Cary

>The workshop on security was great-I've been busily doing lots of cool
>stuff. But one (and maybe more later) question that may be painfully obvious
>to those of us who are not macophiles- you suggested changing the name of
>the Windows directory to something else. Every time I do this ( and I do
>indeed remember to change it in my autoexec.bat file, thanks) I get a lot of
>errors from program manager and file manager, which are both still looking
>for stuff under c:\windows\. Is there any way I can change the name and let
>the computer know it's changed so all the stuff still works?
>
>JoAnn Rees

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Cary Gordon cgordon@cerf.net
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Los Angeles Public Library