Irritating Win XP problems

Posted: 12-15-2003, 05:48 AM

Allan J. Wotherspoon

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I''ve just upgraded from Win 98SE to Win XP and I have run into a
number of irritating problems. I am running a 700mz Athalon with
384mb of RAM. I did a clean install to my system partition after
reformatting it.

Problem 1. I've used TweekUI to switch the default installation path
for new programs from C:\Program Files to E:\Program Files, but
whenever I install a new program it defaults to C rather than E drive.
I've checked the registry and I can't see anything amiss.

Problem 2. My icons keep switching to the generic windows icons.
When I try to change them back I first get a message that the .exe
file contains no icons then a message that the file
%systemroot%\system32\SHELL32.dll contains no icons. The frustrating
thing is that sometimes it works and I either get the icons I am
supposed to get or I am able to select them, either from the
appropriate .exe file or the shell32,dll file.

I checked the knowledge base on this issue and the only hit was
something that occurred in Win95.

I've tried doing a repair install, but the problems persist.

Help!

Thanks,

Allan

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Tom Swift

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Re: Irritating Win XP problems

Posted: 12-15-2003, 11:39 AM

To begin, you are not going to enjoy WinXP on a 700 MHz Athalon. And if your
computer is old enough to have that processor, it may also have older, slow
RAM and other components whose age will cause problems for you.

TweakUI cannot force a program to install into another partition. Many
applications are written to be installed into the system partition, and
won't run properly, if at all, if installed elsewhere.

Cross-posting to so many newsgroups, especially when cross-posting is
unnecessary, is considered rude.

Tom Swift

"Allan J. Wotherspoon" <allanwot@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:e4iqtvs7dc2m03qj9sjsjimd60o17ge6e2@4ax.com...

> I''ve just upgraded from Win 98SE to Win XP and I have run into a
> number of irritating problems. I am running a 700mz Athalon with
> 384mb of RAM. I did a clean install to my system partition after
> reformatting it.
>
> Problem 1. I've used TweekUI to switch the default installation path
> for new programs from C:\Program Files to E:\Program Files, but
> whenever I install a new program it defaults to C rather than E drive.
> I've checked the registry and I can't see anything amiss.
>
> Problem 2. My icons keep switching to the generic windows icons.
> When I try to change them back I first get a message that the .exe
> file contains no icons then a message that the file
> %systemroot%\system32\SHELL32.dll contains no icons. The frustrating
> thing is that sometimes it works and I either get the icons I am
> supposed to get or I am able to select them, either from the
> appropriate .exe file or the shell32,dll file.
>
> I checked the knowledge base on this issue and the only hit was
> something that occurred in Win95.
>
> I've tried doing a repair install, but the problems persist.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allan

Grant

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Re: Irritating Win XP problems

Posted: 12-16-2003, 06:11 AM

"Tom Swift" <tom.swift@swiftenterprises.com> wrote in message
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> To begin, you are not going to enjoy WinXP on a 700 MHz Athalon. And if your
> computer is old enough to have that processor, it may also have older, slow
> RAM and other components whose age will cause problems for you.
>
> TweakUI cannot force a program to install into another partition. Many
> applications are written to be installed into the system partition, and
> won't run properly, if at all, if installed elsewhere.

I'd have to disagree with you on both points there:

1. I have 433Mhz Celeron running windows xp just fine. A 700 Mhz machine might
not be brand new, but it's not *that* old.

2. I've never encountered a program that wouldn't install to different
location, even a different partition/hard drive. I'm not sure about forcing it
to install somewhere else, but I've never come across one that you couldn't
change. They may still install some files to the system directories however.

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