Windows woes

[Fredrik Olsson]

Sean Kelly skrev:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> The bug with the Windows home directories, and why I don't use them, 
>> is they insist on putting spaces in the directory names. This hoses us 
>> command line users.
> 
> It's possible to move home directories with a bit of hacking, though 
> some programs do seem to hard-code path names when they shouldn't.  I 
> tried renaming "Program Files" as well, but with less success.  Even MS 
> apps seem to expect stuff to live there no matter what the registry 
> says.  Ultimately, I just gave up on the whole experiment as too 
> complicated to be worthwhile.
> 
It would have been easily solved if Microsoft just decided to use ~/ for 
the path to home directory as everyone else does.

But as I understand it Windows Vista should come with better support for 
command line users, hopefully a shortcut to the home directories is in 
there (But probably not ~\ just for spite).

// Fredrik