On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 02:55:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Fenton) wrote:
>Every multi-user OS must have the capability for different users >(i.e., different login names) to store settings independently for >each of the users. Even in Win9x, if you have your system set up to [...] I know WHY Moz does it, but like you, I hate this "feature" of the newer Windows versions, and much prefer programs that keep themselves self contained, putting their multi-user profiles under their own directory where, IMHO, they rightly belong, for the reason you cited among others. Most programs still do things the way I consider "right" (though MS disagrees with me on what is "right" and I'm sure a lot of folks here do, too), so when someone tells me to look in a particular program's profile directory, my first instinct is to look for a profile directory within the program's installation directory, not an unnecessarily long pathname in a centralized location decreed by Microsoft. :) Erik Harris eharris1@rocheste$.$$.com http://w3.to/erik ICQ: 2610172 Chinese Martial Arts Assoc @ Cornell: http://w3.to/CMAAC/ To avoid Spam-bots, my address at the top is INCORRECT. Change each dollar sign to an "r".
