From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11498 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2004 19:58:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11479 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2004 19:57:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dessent.net) (66.17.244.20) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Dec 2004 19:57:59 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ChZ7t-0005il-Cn for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:59:57 +0000 Message-ID: <41CB243D.BBE5462D@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:58:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows References: <20041223173744.GA752@home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00817.txt.bz2 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap > and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using > C:\Home\ and storing all configuration type data into > C:\Home\\Configuration - but that's me... There's no need to hack the registry to do this. When you install Windows you can specify the name and location of the "Documents and Settings" directory (as well as the Windows directory itself.) You do this with a response file (winnt.sif) by adding a value "ProfilesDir" under the [GuiUnattended] section. When I installed my current copy of XP I set the profile dir to C:\Users and have not had to touch any further settings to have everything work fine. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/