Dave Waller writes:
> I have a drive from a windows98 computer in my Linux box.
> I got netscape to run and flash5 so I thought that I would try IE 5.
>
> It did run under wine and surfed to MSN just fine.
>
> However it had no menu bar. I had to kill it to get out of it.
>
> Now the directory "Program Files" is now "!$!$!$!$.$!$" literaly
>
>
> if I try to cd to it I can not. bash completes it like this
> cd "!\$!\$!\$!\$.\$!\$"/
> which does not work either.
>
This discussion hasd been on the newsgroup too: - some program is
missing an registry entry and renames some folder. So now we have more
information:
The program in doubt is Explorer and the directory is the "Program
Folder"
Now rename the "!\$!\$!\$!\$.\$!\$" directory back, run explorer again
with debugging +relay,+reg and look before the directory rename
operation what registry values are queried and not found. Rename back
again and add that directory value. Rerun and look if the rename
happens again, perhaps creating more registry values. If at some
point, the rename happens no longer, post the results.
Bye
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
