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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