Changing The Value Of The %SystemRoot% Variable In Windows XP

[Guest Temarias]

Hi. I have a Windows XP machine that was upgraded from Windows 2000. When

the machine was Win2K, %systemroot% was equal to C:\winnt. When I upgraded to

Windows XP, the %systemroot% value remained the same. Is there any way I can

change the value of the %systemroot% to C:\windows without having to do a

clean install.

 

My first attempt to change the %systemroot% value...

I placed a harddrive I wanted to change from C:\winnt to C:\windows into

another machine as a secondary drive. I was able to change the winnt folder

to windows and the boot.ini to look for Windows XP on C:\windows. However,

when I put the drive back in its original chassis as the master drive and

booted up, I saw the Windows XP logo and the ctrl-alt-del screen, the system

allowed and accepted me to enter my username and password. The machine warned

me that my password was able to expire and then quickly logged me off. I

never saw the desktop.

 

Is there a place in the registry were I can change the value of

%systemroot%. I loked in

HKey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session

manager\environment, but I do not see a key I can change specifically for

%systemroot%. I do not have a recovery disk for the machine. Thanks for any

help you can provided!!!

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Changing The Value Of The %SystemRoot% Variable In Windows XP

 

 

"Temarias" <Temarias@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:C456C517-7E08-40B8-9067-95FAD16B08BC@microsoft.com...

> Hi. I have a Windows XP machine that was upgraded from Windows 2000. When

> the machine was Win2K, %systemroot% was equal to C:\winnt. When I upgraded

> to

> Windows XP, the %systemroot% value remained the same. Is there any way I

> can

> change the value of the %systemroot% to C:\windows without having to do a

> clean install.

>

> My first attempt to change the %systemroot% value...

> I placed a harddrive I wanted to change from C:\winnt to C:\windows into

> another machine as a secondary drive. I was able to change the winnt

> folder

> to windows and the boot.ini to look for Windows XP on C:\windows. However,

> when I put the drive back in its original chassis as the master drive and

> booted up, I saw the Windows XP logo and the ctrl-alt-del screen, the

> system

> allowed and accepted me to enter my username and password. The machine

> warned

> me that my password was able to expire and then quickly logged me off. I

> never saw the desktop.

>

> Is there a place in the registry were I can change the value of

> %systemroot%. I loked in

> HKey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session

> manager\environment, but I do not see a key I can change specifically for

> %systemroot%. I do not have a recovery disk for the machine. Thanks for

> any

> help you can provided!!!

 

Sounds like your upgrade went wrong, or that WinXP is still in

the folder c:\WinNT. The registry value is probably

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRoot

[Guest nimd4]

Re: Changing The Value Of The %SystemRoot% Variable In Windows XP

 

 

Pegasus \(MVP\);645834 Wrote:

> Sounds like your upgrade went wrong, or that WinXP is still in

> the folder c:\WinNT.

Um it should still be *WinNT* after the upgrade, no?.. Anyway,

> However, this is temporary. Permanent change to the enivornment variable

> can be achieved through editing the registry (not recommended for

> novices) and using the Windows Resource Kit applications SETX.EXE. The

> most common method of permanently changing the path is changing it

> through the Control Panel or My Computer.

Code:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable

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Also maybe 'try' (http://tinyurl.com/yrywzw)

'Google' (http://tinyurl.com/2y4dk7)?.. Btw.,

Google was pretty quick to index 'this' (http://tinyurl.com/2f98mn)!

:-S

 

 

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nimd4