notepad.exe 2 copies on system

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Michael Walraven

When trying to help someone else I found that there are two copies of
NOTEPAD.EXE on my system, both have the same
version(5.1.2600.0). They are at C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE and at
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE.

System is XP Home upgraded from ME (retail purchase upgrade).
Anyone else have duplicates?

Michael
 
You have a duplicate because you upgraded WinME insitu.

Dave



| When trying to help someone else I found that there are two copies of
| NOTEPAD.EXE on my system, both have the same
| version(5.1.2600.0). They are at C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE and at
| C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE.
|
| System is XP Home upgraded from ME (retail purchase upgrade).
| Anyone else have duplicates?
|
| Michael
|
|
 
-----Original Message-----
When trying to help someone else I found that there are two copies of
NOTEPAD.EXE on my system, both have the same
version(5.1.2600.0). They are at C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE and at
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE.

System is XP Home upgraded from ME (retail purchase upgrade).
Anyone else have duplicates?

Michael


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Yep. This computer has only had xp on it. I guess that
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this is normal.
 
I also have two copies located in the same directories you listed. From
file creation dates, it looks like the notepad.exe in "c:\windows\system32"
was copied to "c:\windows" about 14 months later.
Don
 
So does my computer in the same locations. Checked a couple of friends
computers, so did theirs, so this must be normal for XP.
 
NRC said:
So does my computer in the same locations. Checked a couple of friends
computers, so did theirs, so this must be normal for XP.
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Mine has 3 occurances of notepad.exe. I guess I win. :-)

But seriously, I have 2 in the locations already listed and another in
c:\windows\system32\dllcache. I assume this has something to do with the
fact I ran notepad during this session.

BTW the one in C:\windows is in Upper case.
 
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