The only way to change the Windows folder is to format and reinstall Windows. When you do the install you have to give it a resource file to specify that the folder name needs to be changed. *********************************************** Even if you could change the name of the windows directory it would be a very bad thing. The path to various DLLs, drivers, and other crucial files would then be incorrect on just about every other application in your system, both OS and user apps. You might want to try creating a virtual machine such as <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/overview.mspx">this one from Microsoft </a> or This one from <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/player/">VM Ware </a> both are free and will allow you to install an OS with any folder name you would want. (Thanks to MrDenny and others here for pointing <b><i>me</i></b> at the VMWare Virtual Machine program...) Good Luck! -Flame ********************************************** You can use utilities to create symbolic or hardlinks to the C:windows folder. See <a href="http://www.thierryb.net/site/Symbolic-links-in-Windows.html">this article</a> for some tips about how to do this. The excellent Sysinternals suite (now held by Microsoft) has a utility called Junction that should permit you to do what you describe. I have never tried this so cannot speak to it's ease of use or reliability. Per the <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx">Microsoft website on Junction</a>: <i>Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer. For example, if the directory D:SYMLINK specified C:WINNTSYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:SYMLINKDRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:WINNTSYSTEM32DRIVERS. Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows. Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions—you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool: Junction. Junction not only allows you to create NTFS junctions, it allows you to see if files or directories are actually reparse points. Reparse points are the mechanism on which NTFS junctions are based, and they are used by Windows' Remote Storage Service (RSS), as well as volume mount points.</i>

The only way to change the Windows folder is to format and reinstall Windows. When you do the install you have to give it a resource file to specify that the folder name needs to be changed. *********************************************** Even if you could change the name of the windows directory it would be a very bad thing. The path to various DLLs, drivers, and other crucial files would then be incorrect on just about every other application in your system, both OS and user apps. You might want to try creating a virtual machine such as <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/overview.mspx">this one from Microsoft </a> or This one from <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/player/">VM Ware </a> both are free and will allow you to install an OS with any folder name you would want. (Thanks to MrDenny and others here for pointing <b><i>me</i></b> at the VMWare Virtual Machine program...) Good Luck! -Flame ********************************************** You can use utilities to create symbolic or hardlinks to the C:windows folder. See <a href="http://www.thierryb.net/site/Symbolic-links-in-Windows.html">this article</a> for some tips about how to do this. The excellent Sysinternals suite (now held by Microsoft) has a utility called Junction that should permit you to do what you describe. I have never tried this so cannot speak to it's ease of use or reliability. Per the <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx">Microsoft website on Junction</a>: <i>Windows 2000 and higher supports directory symbolic links, where a directory serves as a symbolic link to another directory on the computer. For example, if the directory D:SYMLINK specified C:WINNTSYSTEM32 as its target, then an application accessing D:SYMLINKDRIVERS would in reality be accessing C:WINNTSYSTEM32DRIVERS. Directory symbolic links are known as NTFS junctions in Windows. Unfortunately, Windows comes with no tools for creating junctions—you have to purchase the Win2K Resource Kit, which comes with the linkd program for creating junctions. I therefore decided to write my own junction-creating tool: Junction. Junction not only allows you to create NTFS junctions, it allows you to see if files or directories are actually reparse points. Reparse points are the mechanism on which NTFS junctions are based, and they are used by Windows' Remote Storage Service (RSS), as well as volume mount points.</i>