re: Programs in C not listed in All Programs
Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Juliane
(153 messages posted)
I understand. They need to be in the registry and are not currently there, just
"shadows" of their former selves. :) If it were you, would you delete the previous
Windows install folder completely, or just leave it there and leave it alone? I'm
a little leery of having the 2 of them on one HD. Yet I don't want to delete any
files I might need. I don't know if Windows cannibalizes itself or ignores a previous
install.
And since I did at least 2 repairs/reinstalls before the complete install, that WIN
XP folder may also have its own set of corrupted files...
Juliane
On Saturday, March 17, 2007 at 4:08 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>No, didn't know about or remember your previous thread, sorry.
>I do understand what you mean now though. The copy of XP in C:\WINDOWSXPPRO was
>the previous install and C:\Windows is your current, new install. Since you did
not
>do an install over (Repair Install) the old, the programs that were installed and
>available there will not run until you reinstall them under the new copy of XP.
You
>may get some of them to run buy creating shortcuts to them in Programs or on your
>desktop but any associated registry entries will be missing so they may not run
correctly.
> Best bet is to reinstall the ones you use.
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