Greetings, Denis Excoffier! > Oops. I'm wrong.
> Until this morning i really thought that XP comes with two "personal places" > for each user: > - C:/Home/user for the personal files of the user (that can be called the > home directory) > - C:/Document and Settings/user for the internal Windows files (Program > Files etc.) not for normal user consumption > This, because our IT people are keen enough to provide us a "secondary" > place where to put our personal files. I imagine > they had too many complaints about spaces in directory names. > Sorry for the noise. You CAN change the default location of "Document and Settings" folder. Takes all of 30 minutes to google, download and make a new ISO image for future installations. My regular Windows XP install put user profiles into C:\Users\ nowadays. P.S. I hope you've caught the other branch of the discussion, about the pre-set $HOME and implications of its existence. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 17.02.2015, <00:34> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
