Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:28:03 -0800 From: George To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Message-ID: <20041224202803.GB852@home> Reply-To: George Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20041223173744 DOT GA752 AT home> <41CB243D DOT BBE5462D AT dessent DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41CB243D.BBE5462D@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:02:05PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > 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. Thanks for the reply, Brian. An unattended install using an answer file is first on my List of Things To Do Next Time (I've been using reparse points as a workaround). I'm still undecided on how to cope with what gets dumped in %USERPROFILE%, but it might ease the schizophrenia to have $HOME point to the same dir as %USERPROFILE%. -- George -- 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/