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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I'm told you can change some registry key (manually of course) to make
> this folder live somewhere else.
You don't have to change things manually. You right-click on the folder,
select "properties", select "location", and give it a new location.
Everything respects that nowadays, unless you're installing programs from
the Win98 era perhaps.
> But I'm not sure how many programs
> would actually take notice; ever tried installing Windows in, say,
> D:\WINDOWS, and seeing programs stuff files into C:\WINDOWS anyway?
The "windows" directories are harder than the "doc&set" directories, yes.
> Yeah. The updater for Adobe Acrobat Reader likes to stuff the installer
> files in a temp folder inside Documents and Settings. For no defined
> reason.
Because that's where it has permission to write temp files. Putting it in
the local tempfile direcotry would have been better, yes.
> I'm still wondering why no OS has yet come up with the idea of
> seperating "documents" from "settings", but hey...
They did. They called it "the registry". Everyone bitched about it being
separate from the file system. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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