Here's a Weird One

Windows 98 does NOT have a Progams\ Administrative Tools folder.

Never did. Never will.

So....

Why does my computer's registry persist in pretending that it SHOULD
have this?

AND, why does this registry entry keep popping up no matter how many
times I delete it?

What is the exact Registry entry and when does it pop up?
When is it recreated after deletion?

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,
(Thersites) wrote:

Windows 98 does NOT have a Progams\ Administrative Tools folder.

Never did. Never will.

So....

Why does my computer's registry persist in pretending that it SHOULD
have this?

AND, why does this registry entry keep popping up no matter how many
times I delete it?

There's no reason at all that Windows shouldn't have a Progams\
Administrative Tools folder. Any application can create such a folder, and
create a registry entry referring to it (although I would hope that it would
be spelt more sensibly), and then complain if it gets deleted.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Thersites" wrote in message
om...
Windows 98 does NOT have a Progams\ Administrative Tools folder.

Never did. Never will.

So....

Why does my computer's registry persist in pretending that it SHOULD
have this?

AND, why does this registry entry keep popping up no matter how many
times I delete it?

Just to keep any others up to date:

I also have that value in Win98 SE.
I also have it in Win ME on another machine.
I don't have the folder itself.

It doesn't bother me as I don't run things like RegVac.
I just deleted it from my Win Me machine and it did not reappear after
a reboot.
I just deleted it from my Win 98 machine and it did not reappear after
a reboot.

It appears to be a standard Shell Folder value and my best guess it
came with IE5.5 SP2.

Sorry, I have no idea why it gets recreated on yours but not on my two
computers.

....Alan


At 13:51 11-06-04, you wrote:

Here's the key:

==========
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders]
"Administrative Tools"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Start
Menu\\Programs\\Administrative Tools"

==========

Pops up with every new boot. I find it every time I run a RegVac check
on its "Bad Filename Finder"

Now, several of the so-called "bad filenames" are actually good file
names (for instance, Hewlett Packard temporary folders, and the IE
cache)- but I have no Administrative Tools and can't for the life of
me figure out how this entry gets written into the registry.

Something obviously writes it in. Win.ini used to write in other
entries before I deleted them (ie. ComicChat- which I uninstalled)
prior to modification of it. But I can't figure what's writing this.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Alan Edwards

What is the exact Registry entry and when does it pop up?
When is it recreated after deletion?

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,
(Thersites) wrote:

Windows 98 does NOT have a Progams\ Administrative Tools folder.

Never did. Never will.

So....

Why does my computer's registry persist in pretending that it SHOULD
have this?

AND, why does this registry entry keep popping up no matter how many
times I delete it?

On 10 Jun 2004 20:12:56 -0700, (Thersites)
wrote:

Windows 98 does NOT have a Progams\ Administrative Tools folder.

Never did. Never will.

So....

Why does my computer's registry persist in pretending that it SHOULD
have this?

AND, why does this registry entry keep popping up no matter how many
times I delete it?

That appears to be installed by Microsoft DOT NET. I just installed
a greeting card program and it installed DOT NET. I now have a
Programs\ Administrative Tools folder and the registry entry. Plus
it installed a C:\WINDOWS\Assembly folder that is dated within 10
minutes of installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3
program. The folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of
folders, including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic.
All together 89 folders and 88 files. Nothing in the folder seems
related to the program. You might look for that folder.

Found another folder, same time and date, C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET.
This one is 32MB. That's 54MB of files not needed for the Greeting
Card program. All kinds of Web, Counter, Visual Basic and
Microsoft.JScript files included. The main program in Program Files
is 1.2GB. No wonder it comes on two CD's. I have re-named the two
big folders and the program seems to work ok.

The Programs\ Administrative Tools folder contains a shortcut to
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\Confi gWizards.exe and
has an earlier date so it may have been there before but I don't
believe so.

Anyway, there's more on this but you might check to see if you have
those folders.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/