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by lmulder001

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Is there a means whereby I could determine whether the current Windows 2000 Professional setup on a client is a clean installation or a updated installation?

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by quintar51

If it was updated from win9x, the system folder will be called windows. If it was a clean install it will be called Winnt.

Windows NT 4 also has a winnt system folder, which it makes it tougher to tell, so if you can find a way, let me know too :)

by lmulder001

Both Windows 2000 Pro and Windows NT 4.0 have WINNT system directories since that is the default directory the NT platform installs to. That is, unless you change it. One difference between the two is the actual location of the profile - files. In NT4 the profiles are located within the WNNT folder itself while with Windows 2000, a new folder called Documents and settings are created in the root, normally the c:\. I have found in one clean install that the NT4.0 profile folder in the WINNT system folder remained..might have been a odd one.

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