10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
10:17 a.m.
On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
Hear hear. At least there are more standardized, sane
places to put
system-wide (ProgramData) and User (AppData) config files. Places that you
don't need to be an administrator to access.
If the application in question actually uses them instead of just assuming either
somewhere off of C: (I'm looking at you, FPGA and simulation vendors) or worse,
"C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents\<arbitrary subdirectory which
wrecks my organization scheme>", which I've noticed they had to backfill with
shortcuts now that they've removed spaces from the path (which also tended to confuse
a lot of programs).
- Dave