WinXP & RedHat co-existence nightmare.

[Dave Ihnat]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:48:10AM -0500, Donald Tyler wrote:
> I had to reinstall windows, but the only disk I had was a restore CD (Not
> the original OS CD). I did that and it seemed to fix the problem, but now
> WinXP is taking literally hours to install anything.

Check for exceedingly huge directories in the Windows directory--a common
one is INF--with thousands of empty files.  If you find one, you'll probably
have to write a script to get rid of them.  A couple of weeks ago, I found
an inf directory with 30,000 empty files in it.

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	Dave Ihnat
	ignatz at dminet.com