| ??? 05/10/07 22:00 Read: times |
#139015 - Windows home directories Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Craig Steiner said:
Andy Peters said:
... is Microsoft's lame attempt at defining a user's home directory, similar to /home/andy or the like. What's lame about it? It's pretty much the exact same concept. It was a good idea on *nix and it's a good idea in Windows. I agree that home directories are a Good Thing. But the Windows implementation of them is botched. For example, something called "My Documents" appears on the Desktop, although it's not a link (in the Unix sense) nor is it an alias. (And you can change the name displayed on the Desktop but it's still internally called My Documents.) But that's not really the "home directory." On standard XP installs, user home is really C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin which is broken because it has spaces in the name. And in that user home directory one can find both Desktop AND My Documents (but one doesn't find My Documents listed in Desktop ...) Anyways, most programs default to "My Documents" instead of the user home directory. Hey, it's better than people either storing their documents in the directory of the program that created them (which is stupid for obvious reasons), or people storing their documents in some directory off of the root named for the program that created them (like C:\Word Docs\). Now it's just My Documents\Word Docs. It's all very confusing ... -a |
