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29 Jul 2024 20:13:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can I remove my C: footprint  
From: Les Popow
Date: 19 Jul 2010 21:13:19
Message: <4rt9469h0neaj1i4qvsp38g6it9e3maoqj@4ax.com>
Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:


>> This is Windows 7, 64bit. I doesn't appear to have the "Start In" facility in the
app
>> properties anymore.
>>
>> Coincidentally (or maybe not). Pov will also not find any help files, even though
the
>> Help forlder exists in the install location on D: and is populated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Les
>>
>
>This should work and affect any application that you ever install 
>afterward, unltil you change again or reinstall windows:
>
>Using tweakui or it's windows 7 equivalent, you can change the location 
>of the appdata and userdata folders to whatever you want.
>
>A little more dificult is to directly edit the registry to do the same.
>
>For the help files, if you launch the help and it don't find the 
>required files, you should get a dialog box that can ether proceede to 
>do an automatic search or let you navigate to your help file. Once you 
>have navigated once, you should be set and windows should always find 
>those help files without any problem.
>
>
>
>Alain

Thanks Alain, 

I'll check out the appdata userdata settings.

As to the help, when I click on any of the help items n any of the Menus, or on the
main help itself, nothing happens. No dialog, no search, no nothing. Everything just
goes along as if no button was pressed.

Thanks,

Les.


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