Windows woes

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> Sean

I think trying to rename those directories after an installation is too 
tricky. It's asking for trouble.
The best and safe way is to change them as a Windows installation 
option. I did this manually through the unattended install options for 
my XP installation, 2 years ago, making C:\Program Files -> C:\Programs, 
and C:\Documents and Settings -> C:\Home .

I planning a new XP installation when I do a PC upgrade, somewhere in 
the summer, and for that I'm planning to use http://www.nliteos.com/ 
(Kyle mentioned it too). It's *very* convenient, as it can create an 
installation CD setup with those unattended options, with service pack 
and hotfixes streamlined, with various windows options pre-configured 
(like options for file explorer, IE, search, theme, etc.), and some 
other features too.



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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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