Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
> Older versions of Windows, prior to XP, you could do it, since a) 
> settings didn't get saved into c:\documents and settings\, and neither 
> did documents. I don't think there is any *obvious* way to move 
> settings, and if you did, you would break things that assume they will 
> be in the same place, instead of checking the current path for it, and 
> 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.

  If Windows supported soft links, then it wouldn't be a problem.

  (Yes, Darren, I know NTFS supports soft links. However, Windows XP doesn't,
no matter how much you claim it does.)

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