How do I tell Windows where my I386 folder has moved?

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After reading the article, I checked my Registry to find that although the I386 folder is definitely located on the C:\ drive, the SourcePath is recorded as F:\, which is my DVD drive! I don't experience any errors, so should I edit this to read C:\ or leave well alone?
Thanks.

thank you for solution about ur i386 suject

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David:

My general philosophy is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". :-)

But you point out something I overlooked in the article: the SourcePath can
often be pointed a the CD or DVD drive, and hence requires you to insert the CD
or DVD on which you have Windows. Pointing it at C:\I386, **if it's the same
as on your CD** is a convenience to avoid having to load the CD when it's
needed.

But I'd leave it alone until or unless it became a nuisance.

Leo

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The new Secunia Personal Software Inspector (www.secunia.com) is a program that looks for old versions of programs that have been superceded and contain holes that can be exploited by virii or malware. It reports old versions with known holes in my i386 folder (such as an old Flash player). I know that I'm not running these versions from i386 on a routine basis, but I would like to delete them to prevent them from being loaded in the future, or prevent the module from being loaded by a malevalent program. However, removing them (assuming that I could find them among the compressed files in i386) might cause errors that could prevent Windows from using other information in the i386 folder. Any advice?

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I would leave the contents of the I386 folder alone. It represents a snapshot
of the I386 folder from your install CD. If things are updated, they'll be
reflected in other directories (like the SP2 related I386) elsewhere on your
machine. I would expect modifying the contents of I386 to have unpredictable
results.

Leo

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Thanks for the info. This will help me tremendously. Thanks again.

I can not find the Source Path on my Registry Editor, now what do I do. I am having the same problem mentioned here with not having desktop icons, task bar or startup menu. I hope you can help me.
Karen

Ok, I have found out that my sourcepath was pointed at my e drive which is my DVD burner/player. I changed it to my C: drive but not sure what else I need to do. I see in your example you have \\freenas\notemax\machine_specific\leo. How do I find out what my server and share are?

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The location you specify is wherever you copied the I386
folder of your installation CD.

Leo

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I changed the sourcepath but it didn't work. I had to change ServicePackSource and Installation Sources. I changed them both at the same time so you may get by just changing one of them.

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