16th February 2001

Those who pay attention to the GnomeREPORT know that I've replaced Notepad with Metapad as my default text editor (which came from welcome.to/metapad). In Windows 98, I simply renamed the binary and threw it into my Windows folder. When I tried to do the same in Windows 2000, the operating system wouldn't let me. Within seconds, it would reverse my replacement. What!? That's a nice safeguard, but I really wanted to use the Metapad binary. In a matter of minutes, I discovered that files in the "WINNT \ system32 \ dllcache" folder were my problem. Upon replacing its copy of Notepad with the Metapad binary, I was saved. Of course, not before being warned about the issues which may have come up (which haven't yet). Now, if you care to stop this auto-recovery from ever happening again, you'll need to launch your registry editor. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon" and look for the "SFCDisable" DWORD value. Set it to "1" and you'll be good to go.