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OK I did it... Setting that works C:\Program Files >> C:\Programs C:\Program Files\Common Files >> C:\Programs\Commons C:\Document and Settings >> C:\User C:\Document and Settings\All Users >> C:\User\Public C:\Document and Settings\Default User >> C:\User\Default C:\Document and Settings\"username"\Application Data >> C:\User\"username"\AppData C:\Document and Settings\"username"\Local Settings >> C:\User\"username"\Locals C:\Document and Settings\"username"\Local Settings\Temp >> C:\User\"username"\Locals\Temp Setting that not works "Start Menu" unable to migrate to "StartMenu" as Windows keep complaining, anyway its not important Tools needed linkd.exe (find it in MS Restoolkit 2003) (put in OEM or as integrated) and executed at initial svcpack no more namespace problems PS: junction and (hardlink) is "similar" to symlink in UNIX and not shortcut More.. I'm still wish able to junction 3 folder: programfiles, temp, and appdata (i think impossible) out from C: since they tend to grow out in size and keep system C: as small partition. how to do that? assuming I have prepare the partition... ah driveletter problem

Sorry, since no one help in my thread i leave this forum for a long time... OK, just to make sure... have you enable "remember folder setting" that i said earlier? just in case... BTW i have reset and set recycle bin sort to "date deleted", it turn out that (all pc that i try) use bagMRU/1/nodeslot as pointer to recycle bin's bag... What about yours? if it same then... assuming you have a backup of bag that set the recycle bin correctly (aka sort=2), just change bagMRU/1/nodeslot to point that bag... I use number >50 since most my unattended experiment spend about 30bags after install (note: I didn't reset / cleanup bags during setup) Unless you didn't want enable "remember folder setting" you may need to set system with "deny" permission to related keys. which i don't how to achieve this with cmd.

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags" /f What is the purpose? As I know there is some special case where column entries (name, type, size...so on) are differently allocated in some folder, such recycle bin, windir\fonts, windir\Offline Web Pages and other. as you wont found "date deleted" or "font name" column entries in normal folder.. And after comparing the difference of 1014 (in my other comp as 343) with most other other bags. it differ in ColInfo which should look like this: "ColInfo"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,fd,df,df,fd,0f,\ 00,06,00,28,00,10,00,34,00,50,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,\ 00,00,04,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,b4,00,b4,00,78,00,60,00,78,00,78,00,00,00,00,\ 00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 Don't know what it mean

yup, logout and in or restart still sorted as date deleted. anyway you right about 1014, I've just try in other comp, and didn't have same value

Just a thought. have you check WINNT51.IP and its friend are properly placed in root and in "YOUr Windows folder" root?

Here is what I got after doing "whatchanged"... [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1014\Shell] "Sort"=dword:00000002 "SortDir"=dword:ffffffff Did you regshot it after logoff and in again? Its user setting registry which is normally saved when user logoff (otherwise its cached) unless you enable the "disable save user setting on exit" policy which always cached only. Anyway it works for me but i doubt i'll works for you... I mean the "1014" seems not persistent. More.. Sort's data represent the ordinal position of the columns where my win as name, original location, date deleted, size, type and date modified started from 0. Anyway I don't know whats the arragement after windows initial setup. SortDir'data here mean its not sorting folder, which only may true when Sort's data are Name, type or Date modified. Give it a try

Oops, sorry its linkd.exe not fsutil.exe as stated in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524 BTW I tried myself and it works Now I have %programfiles% as C:\Programs (kept in registry) "C:\Programs" junction-ed to "C:\program files" and so on.. like in Vista when you enable "show hidden and system files" but still I don't know how to change: Application Data > AppData Local Settings > Local during setup.... if this solved it would be great and resolve space-contained path on many software. like compiler... for example: put it all inside C:\Programs while maintaining compatibility with some ignorant installer that use C:\Program Files instead of %programfiles% Or probably I could junction a folder outside C: (ex. D:\Software) to C:\Programs instead while having %programfiles% registered as C:\Programs junction it again to C:\Program Files for compatibility In the end it could have Appdata, MyDocument, Temp and Program Files in wherever you want right after Windows setup finished. And will looks more like UNIX I think HELP....HELP....

in Vista the default environment path has changed to (non-spaced path) C:\Users\Appdata C:Programs and so on How does I could achieved this within unattended XP setup, Winnt.sif has setting for %UserProfile%, %Programfiles% %Windir% %temp% and Common files but not appdata path (i think? ) My objective is make XP directory structure like Vista's From above I miss how to set APPDATA & LOCAL SETTINGS, can I inject some .reg or reg.exe comand? If I do, when? and after that I need to create junction using fsutil.exe for compatibility (as XP default) also in unattended mode Is that possible? Thanx in advance Sorry about my english