From: Hugh Vandervoort
This "all over the place" filing is what allows XP to have different
Desktops, favorites, programs etc. for each user. For a single user it
doesn't make much difference, but when there's more than one, it's
important. I saw your comment about "All users". There's no need to mess
with that folder at all. It just controls which programs are available to
"All users", like AV programs and such. This allows you to keep your
Playboy viewer program unavailable to your wife, girlfriend, etc.
I know what you are saying, Hugh. And it's my lunacy that has to have all
programs listed in one place. So in "Documents and Settings" I moved
everything from "All Users" to "Computer_Owner" with no apparent loss; it's
just nice to know where everything is. There's no Playboy material here but
*periodically* I do keep certain files that I should know better not to
have; I keep them encrypt (or is it encrypted?) using Cryptext ... and when
Cryptext gets tired (happens when resources are low), I have PMEncrypt as a
backup (both excellent for what they are supposed to do). Anyway, my wife is
a totally non-user of computers (she's the people-person in the family). As
for the g/f business, program, applet, whatever; that should be excellent
for whatever ails my own system ... that's when such a program is available
;-)
So as a result of all the good advice from PCWorks, Firefox is totally
re-installed, the font size is improved, the "logging on" problem is taken
care of, Notepad+ is working fine ... all is well with the computer. A few
more questions later on.
> Originally from Harold
> It's not easy to understand the Windows filing system in that one would
> think that Firefox (or any of the many folders I have in "Application
> Data"), would be in one place; like in Program Files; that would make
> sense. Here in XP one has the same program all over the place.
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