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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:55:42 +0200
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Of corse "Documents and Settings" is worse. I don't want my personal files,
> my Desktop and profile to be on C: but moving "Documents and Settings" is
> almost impossible.

it is worst:
- "Documents and Settings" is kind of a black hole which mixes system 
configuration, application configuration and unrelated personnal files with no 
real hierarchy or convention. there is not a clear difference between 
"Application Data" and "Local Settings", and a redundancy between "Application 
Data" and "Local Settings\Application Data".
- It has been designed as the "home" directory of a user (if unsure, type "set 
HOME" at a command prompt) but it is not directly accessible from the desktop 
by default, only "My Documents" is. since i cannot categorize all the files i 
create on a computer as "documents", some are configurations, some are 
programs, some are just garbage. so i don't and i will never use this folder. 
(plus, i find the name totally dumb). so, for a home directory, it is not very 
comfortable, not the kind of home i would like to live in.

going further: Microsoft could have pushed the "My" principle farther:
"c:\My Programs", "c:\My Home\My Documents", but this have no meaning on a 
truly multiuser station: "My Computer" can then mean "The Computer seldomly 
used by Joe", "The Computer often mis-used by Sally" or even "The Computer 
owned by your Boss".

-- 
rien