At 15.23 30/04/2002, you wrote:
>Try moving a large app between drives under Windows...
>This changes the path, often requiring a reinstall, or some messy registry
>edits.
Actually, it's possible and quite funny. You can unmount all disks, even
those in use, even the system disk, ending up with a system without drive
letters, then remount them as you like. I used this, together with some
symlink magic, to trick the PSDK installer. I have the program files dir
mounted on a different partition that had 3 GBs free, but the letter was
D:, the system partition, with only 70 MBs free. I unmounted all disks,
mounted the program files partition as D:, mounted the system partition as
D:\system, created symlinks to simulate a system partition (D:\WINNT =>
D:\system\WINNT, for example), installed the PSDK. Sadly, the logon manager
will always delete all mount points on logoff, so you need to reboot after
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