stevenz527 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It would be great to be able to change the default destination of "Program Files" folder, just like nLite.I'm wondering when will this feature be available.Thanks,Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronkarp Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 And not only Program Files, but all System folders,like users, ProgramData etc. would be really helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Currently really interested in this, gonna try it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenz527 Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 Good to know you have plan for it.Keep up the good work Cheers,Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stead Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Personally I'd love it to just use documents and settings and do away with the users folder! although I have afeeling that won't be easy to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeronimo Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Personally I'd love it to just use documents and settings and do away with the users folder! although I have afeeling that won't be easy to do...Documents and settings is now only used as a junction to Users folder for compatibility (as there are many others junctions as well).I would like to have Users under %SystemRoot% and ProgramData under %ProgramFiles%\Data, but it is mere cosmettic. The structure as it is, is rather clear if you know how the junctions are used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stead Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Yes, I realised its all junctions, I am confused to why they did it tho, is it just to show off the fact windows can do it and that no one really used it before? personally i've used the junctions, when dual booting i used them to point both users to the same favorites and my documents so i could reach files on both easily!it is just cosmetic, but it irrates me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeronimo Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Yes, I realised its all junctions, I am confused to why they did it tho, is it just to show off the fact windows can do it and that no one really used it before? personally i've used the junctions, when dual booting i used them to point both users to the same favorites and my documents so i could reach files on both easily!it is just cosmetic, but it irrates me As I stated for compatibility. Windows XP uses Documents and Settings and it is to support programs which require those folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronkarp Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hi,is the custom programs (and users) folderimplemented in v 0.9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zedox Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 It's weird, my xp install, i used nlite to change my docs and settings folder name to users... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronkarp Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 What is that supposed to mean? Is that an answer to my question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenz527 Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 What is that supposed to mean? Is that an answer to my question?I'm afraid it hasn't been included yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronkarp Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Sorry to bother again with the same question,but is this in 0.95 by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuhi Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I presume that vLite is too big to download and try so I'll answer.No, and it won't be until it supports Unattended, and even then is the big question.Why? Because Vista Program Files folder is already named like that in the image itself, so the Unattended is our last hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preiner Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Big Heads Up On Changing the Program Files, Users, or ProgramData directory...After I did this using Windows Admin Kit (WAIK), I had nothing but problems. After days of chasing it down, I found a Microsoft KB article that states this functionality is BROKEN!!If you change any of these directories, then Vista forgets to update the junction points. This will leave you with junctions pointing to non-existant directories and your life will be a miserable slog!I have tried to manually fix the junctions and/or the Vista image, but its beyond my ability. There is no junction viewing utility with Vista, and the existing freeware ones do not work correctly with Vista. Vista added new types of links and ALL of the existing apps break badly except for junction.exe that comes from sysinternals.PLUS, get this, there are a few places in the registry that still refer to the old locations. MS NEVER TESTED THIS AT ALL! What a turdSo, my advice is to wait for the vLite version that supports this, if it ever is done. Lastly, just to demonstrate how bad this is broken...Vista creates two env. variables, %PROGRAMDATA% and %SYSTEMROOT%. Ok, no problem. When you use WAIK, the %PROGRAMDATA% var is correctly updated, but several inf files have incorrect references in them.Most inf references are of the form %PROGRAMDATA%\DirectoryName ... However some are %SYSTEMDRIVE%%PROGRAMDATA%\DirectoryNameThus if, for example, you have %SYSTEMDRIVE%=C:\ and %PROGRAMDATA%=C:\ABC. then the computed directory is:C:\C:\ABCnote the double drive letter... IF you omit the C: from the %PROGRAMDATA% var, then the other references break..Like many others, I would REALLY like to move these locations but the KB article indicates that moving these locations is broken and will prevent you from upgrading (they dont say how)Hope this helps someone out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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