Detect if W2000 was an upgrade from NT4?

[Andrew Morton]

If a W2000 computer has "\WINNT\Profiles" rather than "\Documents and
Settings", does that indicate it was upgraded from NT4? (The history of
the computer is unknown as it belongs to a friend who bought it from a
now non-existent company when they replaced their PCs.)

Andrew

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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If a W2000 computer has "\WINNT\Profiles" rather than "\Documents and
Settings", does that indicate it was upgraded from NT4? (The history
of the computer is unknown as it belongs to a friend who bought it
from a now non-existent company when they replaced their PCs.)

Andrew

Probably

 

[Bruce Chambers]

If a W2000 computer has "\WINNT\Profiles" rather than "\Documents and
Settings", does that indicate it was upgraded from NT4?

Andrew

Yes.

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[Andrew Morton]

Yes.

Thanks for firming up the "probably"

Andrew

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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Thanks for firming up the "probably"

Andrew

Just covering my butt ;o) as there is nothing to stop a user or an older
application from creating the sub folders you mention

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Just covering my butt ;o) as there is nothing to stop a user or an older
application from creating the sub folders you mention

You're welcome, but you do raise a good point: there _is_ nothing to
prevent a user or a legacy application from creating the
C:\Winnt\Profiles folder, provided the necessary privileges have been
granted. However, the C:\Documents and Settings folder would still be
there, and I don't believe that it can be deleted.


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[George Hester]

I think there are a couple of ways of doing this where it is assumed the Windows 2000 installation wasn't fiddled with. One is to do Start | Run | winfile | OK. If you get an error no probabley not a Windows NT 4 upgrade. The other is that Quick View. Isn't it qview? So a NT 4 or a Windows 98 upgrade qview will work. Not in Windows 2000 clean install.

 

[Eric McG]

Here's another one: Check for this key and view the data in PlatformName:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\PrevOsVersion\

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Eric McGillicudy

I think there are a couple of ways of doing this where it is assumed the Windows
2000 installation wasn't fiddled with. One is to do Start | Run | winfile | OK.
If you get an error no probabley not a Windows NT 4 upgrade. The other is that
Quick View. Isn't it qview? So a NT 4 or a Windows 98 upgrade qview will work.
Not in Windows 2000 clean install.