Chris,
ROTFLMAO!
Well, I do not believe I am quite that rural, yet! And the "gerbils" are
APC ups's.
But, I do see your point.
I'll test this on one machine and see what happens; about the
"mountpoints/2" business.
The machine can be rebuilt easy enough! I now have a pre-fix image of it
ATM. I now have a current "test" XPpro machine! Just for stuff like this.
Thanks,
Duncan
At 12:40 01/21/2009 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
Chris,
Thanks for this answer to Wayne's alternative. I have read thru the doc
several times now.
I'd really like to install this business, BUT I do have some concern
about the delete of the "moutpoints2" key. I do not have a key, I have a
Folder/Key. And, it has very much inside it.
I see keys for each of my installed I/O on the machine. This I get. But,
I also see many {big hex #} keys also which I really do not wish to
research prior to deletion of the parent key.
I do NOT yet use mountpoints for remote drives on my LAN yet. If I read
Wayne's concern correctly, once I install this "fix" I will NOT be able
to use remote drive mounts......Is this correct?
Ideas/suggestions? Oh, this is a machine that was upgraded from W2K to WXP!
Thanks,
Duncan
I'd have to say from the standpoint of security, since you live 100 miles
from anyone else and have Gerbils for power generation the chance someone
will be putting a bad USB stick into your system is low. =)
I'm not 100% sure what information is stored in that mountpoints
key/folder in the registry. If I've read correctly (And I've messed up my
reading in the past) it's just a cache of previous autoruns. You can
always export that registry key, delete it, then restart the computer and
see if it has any problems. Worst case you'd have to go into the recovery
console and re-import the keys.
Christopher Fisk
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