Hi, urjtag-windows users!

I'm going to commit a patch to change a default DATADIRECTORY for
UrJTAG on Windows to the "C:\ProgramData\UrJTAG".

As it is known modern Windows does not allow unprivileged applications
to get access to "C:\Program Files\_appdir_". The previous "UrJtag.nsi" script
puts data into "C:\Program Files\UrJTAG\data".
The "right way" is to store application data into user's "AppData\Roaming"
or "AppData\Local" and Windows sets variables "APPDATA" and
"LOCALAPPDATA" for this.
Alternatively application can store a system-wide data into "All Users" account.
This "C:\Uses\All Users" is just a symlink to the "C:\ProgramData". Also Windows
sets variables:
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData

Hence it wold be logical to change an Urjtad data directory to the
"C:\ProgramData\UrJTAG".

Any comments, suggestions ?


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