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2nd winxp installation-one HD

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iz0nlee

Flightless Bird
my neighbour is having trouble with his winxp, rebooting immediately and
constantly. I installed a 2nd copy of winxp and that one boots, though
doesnt recognise any programmes installed on the old setup. There are no
files such as 'my documents' either. Where will these be as surely they
would be there if the old windows booted?

TIA for an answer
 
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Pegasus [MVP]

Flightless Bird
"iz0nlee" <iz0nlee@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> my neighbour is having trouble with his winxp, rebooting immediately and
> constantly. I installed a 2nd copy of winxp and that one boots, though
> doesnt recognise any programmes installed on the old setup. There are no
> files such as 'my documents' either. Where will these be as surely they
> would be there if the old windows booted?
>
> TIA for an answer


You will need to re-install your neightbour's applications. Most of them
won't run properly with the method you used.

When you open a Command Prompt then the command

set user{Enter} will show you the parent directory of the "My Documents"
folder.
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
One hopes your neighbor has a good insurance policy...

iz0nlee wrote:
> my neighbour is having trouble with his winxp, rebooting immediately and
> constantly. I installed a 2nd copy of winxp and that one boots, though
> doesnt recognise any programmes installed on the old setup. There are no
> files such as 'my documents' either. Where will these be as surely they
> would be there if the old windows booted?
>
> TIA for an answer
 
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philo

Flightless Bird
iz0nlee wrote:
> my neighbour is having trouble with his winxp, rebooting immediately and
> constantly. I installed a 2nd copy of winxp and that one boots, though
> doesnt recognise any programmes installed on the old setup. There are no
> files such as 'my documents' either. Where will these be as surely they
> would be there if the old windows booted?
>
> TIA for an answer
>
>




You will need to reinstall the applications
but all the data will simply be in the previous profile
you can just use Windows Explorer to copy it over
or create a new shortcut
 
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neil

Flightless Bird
Using windows explorer look in "c:/documents and settings" there you should
see the previous login name and you can copy the files to the new user "my
documents" as philo suggests.
Neil

"iz0nlee" <iz0nlee@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:#wVTFfz3KHA.5588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> my neighbour is having trouble with his winxp, rebooting immediately and
> constantly. I installed a 2nd copy of winxp and that one boots, though
> doesnt recognise any programmes installed on the old setup. There are no
> files such as 'my documents' either. Where will these be as surely they
> would be there if the old windows booted?
>
> TIA for an answer
>
 
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