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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Well, would you install Windows anywhere else? Honestly, there are *to* many
> stupid programs around which have serious problems when Windows is anywhere
> else then C:\Windows that it never crosses my mind to use anything else
> then C:.

I still maintain that the best favor Microsoft ever did for programs
(if not programmers) was to make the default installation directory
for programs be '\Program Files' on the root drive. That finally made
everyone deal properly with blanks in file and directory names, on
pain of looking ridiculous otherwise. Blanks had been permitted in
names for a long time, both in Windows and Unix, but most programs
handled them very badly.