RFC: more Windows-NT like user directories?

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Monday 20 September 2004 11:56 am, Juan Lang wrote:
> --- Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.QinetiQ.com> wrote:
> > In theory My Documents can be controlled by the
> > registry. In practice I 
> > think quite a few apps hard code it.
> 
> Do you think so?  I'd be a little surprised, since
> it's c:\My Documents on Win9x-ish systems (in single
> user mode) and c:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My
> Documents on Win2k/XP.  (That, plus it's a localized
> name.)  On old apps that assume Win95 perhaps.

I would be quite surprised by this as well, as its somewhat common
practice for companies to point "My Documents" to a network share
for backup purposes, including with Win95/98