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I know what you're thinking.
But you're wrong.
It was bought from a store, the reason the OS is on the HD is that HDs are large and it saves putting in the CD if ever you need it. It's quite convenient and would have thought not unusual.
Prob no diff to putting in the CD and putting "word" in find. Prob some sort of protection, thought some clever bugger would know. Didn't really give it a thought when I posted that OS was on C.
Jeff
But you're wrong.
It was bought from a store, the reason the OS is on the HD is that HDs are large and it saves putting in the CD if ever you need it. It's quite convenient and would have thought not unusual.
Prob no diff to putting in the CD and putting "word" in find. Prob some sort of protection, thought some clever bugger would know. Didn't really give it a thought when I posted that OS was on C.
Jeff
jeff m said:
the reason the OS is on the HD is that HDs are large and it saves putting in the CD if ever you need it.'
I'm not an expert but IMHO OSs are always on the HD? You can't run an OS from a CD; it's not fast enough.
The reason behind my Q was then to ask: What did it say on the box when you bought it? What software did it claim to come with, other than Win98? Anything?
jeff m said:
My actual ques was that "find" did not seem to look in it.
It's perfectly possible you have Windows but not Word. But that goes back to my original question - if you bought it from new, what exactly did it say on the box? Did you get any CDs with 'Word' or Office' written on them?
To (attempt) to answer the original question.
There is nothing in the OS which will prevent you from finding a file called 'winword.exe' if that file exists in a particular folder. If you have the source files for Office/Word in a folder, you will not find winword.exe in that folder; The install files should contain a .cab file in which you'll find winword.exe.
Perhaps it would be easier to approach this from a different angle. Why were you searching for Word in the 1st place, to reinstall it?
DJ
>> Edited by _DJ_ on Sunday 18th January 11:57
There is nothing in the OS which will prevent you from finding a file called 'winword.exe' if that file exists in a particular folder. If you have the source files for Office/Word in a folder, you will not find winword.exe in that folder; The install files should contain a .cab file in which you'll find winword.exe.
Perhaps it would be easier to approach this from a different angle. Why were you searching for Word in the 1st place, to reinstall it?
DJ
>> Edited by _DJ_ on Sunday 18th January 11:57
Bodo said:
simpo two said:
I'm not an expert but IMHO OSs are always on the HD? You can't run an OS from a CD; it's not fast enough.
There's no problem running operating systems from CD. It gets loaded into RAM on bootup anyway; so only booting may take a little bit longer from CD.
Not true. In a Windows OS you will have some of the OS in memory, but when using DLL's the machine will load/unload them from memory when used. Windows also assumes that some folders in %systemroot% are Read/Write and will break if you use read only media
>> Edited by _DJ_ on Sunday 18th January 11:59
_DJ_ said:
To (attempt)
Perhaps it would be easier to approach this from a different angle. Why were you searching for Word in the 1st place, to reinstall it?
DJ
>> Edited by _DJ_ on Sunday 18th January 11:57
I knew I didn't have it as a working prog, thought it possible it may be on the CD and uninstalled. I happen to have my win 98 folder on my HD, which threw everybody into a loop. If I found it I would of course installed it. What puzzled me was that a "find" for "word" in the win 98 folder (equiv of CD almost) would result in zero hits considering things like wordpad exist in that folder.
It's really not a problem, I just got a result I didn't expect.
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