Dear Programmers

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Delta-Pangaea's avatar
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You have a program files folder on my computer. Two of them, even.

STOP SHOVING PROGRAM FILES SHIT INTO MY DOCUMENTS.

Regards,
Me.
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kittyhawk-contrail's avatar
meh. C:\Program Files\ is for system wide stuff. HKEY_USER reg entries could be used for small things, but the registry is awful. I'm much happier for people t use %APP_DATA% to store user-specific stuff. Too bad no one gets this right.

The worst offenders are linux ports where they stick stuff in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% instead of %APPDATA%. Just because linux uses ~/.foo doesn't mean windows programs should be using that same scheme.