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Re: quoting windows pathnames


Bill C Riemers wrote:

Silly question but why do you _have_ to use paths with spaces in them
under Windows XP? It's possible to change e.g. the default programs
directory from e.g. C:\Program Files\ to C:\Programs\, the same stands
for the other standard directories.



OK. You have me curious. Please tell. Especially how to change the name of the "Documents and Settings" directory. Even better if you can tell me how to put that on another drive than C: without reinstalling. (I hate having to use partition magic regularly...)

I did it on my home machine but you have to hack the hell out of the registry! I put "Documents and Settings" under /Home/<Username>/Configuration. Just made a lot more sense to me!



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