> which is why you can find Chrome in %AppData% Chrome installs in %AppData% so a non-admin user can install it and a non-admin process can update it. It is de

> which is why you can find Chrome in %AppData% Chrome installs in %AppData% so a non-admin user can install it and a non-admin process can update it. It is debatable if this is good behaviour, but it has nothing to do with the supposed confusion over Program Files. > Program Files (or is it Program Files (x86) or good old PROGRA~1) On 64 bit Windows 64 bit installations go in Program Files and 32 bit installations go into Program Files (x86). This is transparent to the installers themselves as Windows directs the installation appropriately based on bitness. 8.3 filenames are depreciated and only exist for backwards compatibility with MS Dos applications. > User data goes in C:\Users\username\My Documents No user data goes in the aptly named AppData folder (i.e. %AppData% or C:\Users\[user]\AppData). Personal files go in the Documents folder (it hasn't been called "My Documents" in approx. five years). > But sometimes, with an especially hapless error, you can get Windows to reassign the drive letter for C:, and all hell breaks loose. Your above issues are pretty sketchy but this one is now getting into the realm of absurd. You're effectively arguing that when you go out of your way to try and break Windows it, well, breaks. That is an astounding revelation. > It sounds like people actually want Windows CE (no drive letters, everything OEM installed goes into \Windows, no exceptions) People want a container model where everything is together.