That darned "USER"

[Alias]

Backpedaling...again...as usual?
Didn't you say..."How does one separate the programs from the registry,
for example?'
And didn't I ask..."Please tell us all why you think you need to be able
to separate programs from the registry?"
Oops!...LOL!

Programs such as the millions of viruses and malwares, when installed,
go directly into the registry where they can wreck havoc. Computing 101,
chum.

 

[Alias]

So? Who cares?

You should. Keeping the kernel, or registry, separate is the reason
Ubuntu is bullet proof compared to Windows.

 

[Alias]

No, I don't have to care about it. I practice safe hex.

And you're perfect, right?

 

[Alias]

More of your childish responses?
Obviously, having any kind of an intellectual, factual conversation with
you ends when your cornered...then you either cross the line with your
vile disguising sexual insults and threats of physical violence about
ones family members or else make you make obtuse, stupid, unrelated
remarks.
FACT: there is absolutely nothing you can do with linux that can't be
done with Windows. Nothing.
FACT: you can play games with Windows (a multi-billion dollar industry)
but not with linux.
FACT: you need only one OS...Windows.
PERIOD!!!

Your Achilles heal is showing, Frances.

 

[ragmaniac]

LOL...you just proved my point cody!
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Well, I didn't expect to start a fight between F and A, or A and F,
whichever way you want to see it, but so it goes. The more we talk,
the more we see! Remember, no matter who puts it out, wether it's
garbage or not, there is always a piece of useful info in it
somewhere. Long live optimism!

And again, I want to thank Andrew for taking my question under his
wing. Yes, I will create some pointers in C:\ (and/or other drives) to
get me quickly into some of the deeper directories.

Did the OS designers realize how much error-prone typing is involved
to get at these deep directories the long way?


Thanks again. Hal.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Well, I didn't expect to start a fight between F and A, or A and F,

Hi Hal,

You can safely ignore Frank and Alias. They are very high-volume posters
to this newsgroup; but neither of them has ever contributed anything
useful. It is some kind of private game, which they find amusing.

Did the OS designers realize how much error-prone typing is involved
to get at these deep directories the long way?

Another reply suggested that you can modify the Shell Folders values in
teh Registry. In a sense this is technically correct, but I'd discourage
that approach as a solution. I've actually used that myself, in the
past. However I found it is somewhat error-prone, since some apps will
still use hard-coded directory paths, and you end up with data scattered
between two places! It is also unsupported by Microsoft PSS and most
application vendors; which is probably not a big deal for a single user
at home, but usually kills the idea in any school or business setting.

And, yeah: I don't necessarily think the new layout is "good"; I'm just
saying, that's the way it is

I think the designers were assuming that users will navigate through the
directory structure using point-n-click in Explorer and the common
control dialogue boxes (File Open, File save, etc). The ideal solution
would be to have user-friendly organisation of data, at a layer which
was above, and abstracted from, the underlying physical file system.
That was one of the goals for the late, lamented WinFS ... a good idea
which just never got off the ground ...

Cheers

Andrew