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> Why can't [Quicken and other Windows apps] simply do the obvious? Create a \Quicken directory in the root, and have a \Quicken\program and \Quicken\userdata ?
by mananaysiempre 4y ago
> Why can't [Quicken and other Windows apps] simply do the obvious? Create a \Quicken directory in the root, and have a \Quicken\program and \Quicken\userdata ?
Networked machines. (Aside from the obvious security problems on a multi-user installation.) The "gawd knows where hidden directories" (of which there are two, %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA%, plus, on a recent Windows version, a number of compatibility links and some sort of integrity level thing) are segregated into the part which should have an authoritative copy on the file server ("roaming") and the part that can or has to stay on the workstation ("local").
- carrolldunham 4y agoI can't believe windows doesn't offer an option "this is my laptop, nobody else is ever going to use it". I hate logging in to my own laptop and having a user folder like some loser student in a library
- navjack27 4y agoEvery OS is like this... Except Haiku. And you aren't the only user on pretty much every OS. There are many many many built in "users" for different internal operations.
- smaudet 4y agoNot relevant. Every OS also has different levels of user. Your user should be the admin, shouldn't be tied a profile etc. Linux is setup like more like this. Yeah, it makes it more complex for certain network style things (you have 4 computers and want to sync between them), but it's trivial to work around. The reason Windows is built like this is they develop first for enterprises and libraries, everyone else gets the shitty castoffs...
- Razengan 4y agoIf you were a student in a library you’d know that’s a computer literacy issue.