> while you can move the documents, **I know** personally that this breaks 
> some applications which expect the document path to remain the same, after 
> detecting they are in XP or higher.

Such an application that assumes absolute folder paths that are hard coded 
would be ridiculous.  It would mean for instance it would only work on 
English 32bit XP and nothing else.  German XP (and I suspect all other 
languages) has different folder names for My Documents, 64bit has a "Program 
Files (x86)" folder, Vista has C:\Users rather than C:\Documents and 
Settings, didn't Win2K have C:\WINNT as the windows folder or something? 
Basically such a program would suck so much, the fact that it stored it's 
data on C rather than D would be the least of your worries.

BTW Vista can trick older/badly written programs in to thinking they are 
writing to a certain location, but actually stores the files in the correct 
area.  If you tell Vista your user area is somewhere else (eg D drive) then 
really everything will be put on the D drive, even by badly behaved programs 
that try to write directly to the C drive.

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