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98/XP upgrade can't access "my Computer"

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by baegis

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I upgraded a friends Win98 PC with XP. Everything went fine and all his hardware worked straight off. His hard drive was partioned in 2 halfs as C: & D: each 15 GigBytes.

Problem 1. He had messed around previously and the computer name in Win98 was not repeatable. Not knowing this when I upgraded, Win XP now uses this as the computer/ system name and I cannot work out how to change it. I went to CTRL Panel | system and changed it there but it still shows on Win Explorer and system applications running????

Problem 2. When I left him, He had to reinstall some programs that did not work. He installed Norton's Antivirus 2000. After that nothing worked very well. I unistalled it and got it all going again except: Can't access My Computer. The desktop Icon does not work and you cannot access it from Win Explorer either. Also drive D: does not come up in Win Explorer. You can only get to it by Typing D: in the address bar or through an application you may be running. egrecently used files in word etc. From all other appearances D: seems to be working normally.

How do we get MY COMPUTER back and the D: on Win Explorer.

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by jwbirdsong

Both of those problems can be caused with incorrect setting in Tweakui. To show the drive in tweakui go to (I beleive) My Computer tab and check all drives. I would actually reccomend uninstalling Tweakui and using X-Setup from X-teq systems http://www.xteq.com/. You can hide and show any drive or Rename Entire system

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