Path lengths and performance

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Paul

I seem to remember, years ago, being told that it's important to keep
path lengths as short as possible. This seems to be ignored by WindowsXP
where the "My Documents" folder is down several levels. Since I'm the
only user of my PC (it's a PC after all) there seems no reason not to
move My Documents (and why can't I just call this folder Documents: I
know they're mine) to the root directory of the C: drive. I envisage
some short-term problems such as links in applications not working, but
this will sort itself out in time. So my question:

Would performance improve significantly if I were to move the "My
Documents" folder to the root directory of the C: drive or does
WindowsXP work in a different way to earlier OSs?

Thanks for any help and a Happy Christmas.

Paul
 
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