After the Reinstall !

I've just reinstalled XP. I wish I hadn't. However:

My boot drive is now K: and XP says it cannot be changed. I'd much
prefer it to be C:

I have a US keyboard with some of the punctuation in odd places,
nothing I can do can persuade XP to use the British keyboard and
language.

Making an environment variable DIRCMD=/L/O:GN which I believe to be
syntactically correct, only takes partially. It's supposed to sort
directory listing at the command prompt in alphabetical order,
directories at the top, files at the bottom, all in lower-case.
This is added in [Environment Variables] at:
MyComputer|Properties|Advanced.

In fact it's sorting in alphabetical order files and directories,
some in upper- and some in lower-case.

Putting SET DIRCMD=/L/O:GN at the command prompt "cures" this problem
for as long as that box is open. It's then promptly forgotten.

Any ideas on any of the above?

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73 de Jock.
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