How to create a sys folder

[barry]

Does anyone know why Windows XP Home Ed. won't allow me to create a
folder with sys as the name? The problem occrurs when I try to install
the Watfor C Compiler, a great freebie if their Fortran compiler is
anything to go by. The installer tries to create c:/watcom/h/sys and
comes back with an error. When I try to create the folder manually, I
get a 'file not found' error.

Incidentally, I tried to do the the same thing manually from a Unix
shell running on top of XP and got a similar error. Is there a way
around XP to create a /sys folder?

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Dr Teeth]

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "barry"

Is there a way
around XP to create a /sys folder?

I can create a sys folder here I'm afraid. I did notice that your post
uses '/' instead of '\'. A typo or the source of the problem?

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[barry]

Hi Guy,

But I cannot do this on my computer. By the way, the / not \ comes from
years on unix systems. Old habits die hard. Incidentally, I don't have
this problem on another Windows computer I use, which is actually an
AMD processor running beside a Sun Microsystems 64 bit CPU and working
off the same hard drives. I've tried creating sys several ways on my
laptop without success. Hopefully, someone can point me in the right
direction.

Barry

 

[barry]

Duh!!!. If anyone is interested, the answer is very simple.
Control panel, folder options, view, uncheck 'hide protected operating
system files' and voila--you can write all kinds of garbage into the OS.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

Duh!!!. If anyone is interested, the answer is very simple.
Control panel, folder options, view, uncheck 'hide protected operating
system files' and voila--you can write all kinds of garbage into the OS.

also, to make it more geek friendly
display full path in address bar, don't hide extensions for known file
types

 

[Dr Teeth]

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when

also, to make it more geek friendly
display full path in address bar, don't hide extensions for known file
types

Some of the very firsts things I do when installing XP.

--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[q_q_anonymous]

I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when


Some of the very firsts things I do when installing XP.

at least all the common windows annoyances are discussed and well
listed. so they pop up on google when you run into one.

I remember trying Linux with the Gnome GUI. Periodically('cos of
something or other that i was unknowingly doing with the mouse) the
desktop with all the open windows, would slide to the side of the
screen into a thin bar.
Apparently KDE is better. But i'm more afraid of trying the linux GUI
than I ever was of Windows.

I put off installing win xp for years. I installed it and realised my
fears were well placed. took me a month to get all the annoyances
sorted out. But at least the annoyances pop up when you google them.
People actually moan about them, ask about them, post the solutions
over and over in newsgroups.

With Linux GUIs, nobody wants to talk about them or admit they exist.


I'm guessing i'm not the only person that found this. Infact, I'm
guessing that the problem is so prevalent, that you yourself ran
windows, tried linux, and returned to windows!