I would be worried about all of the references to specific program files by
Icons and other links and by all the services and or registry entires that
are installed on the computer that do not use "%PROGRAMFILES%" when
referencing a specific program file.

"Gew" wrote in message
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Badger;1682193 Wrote:
Why try so hard to complicate a proven operating system?
All you are doing is slowing the system down.

"Gew" wrote in message
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I have another theory on solving this issue.
I'd like to keep NTFS junction points out of the picture.
Therefor, my solution goes something like this.

Change the following registry key:
-HKEY LOCAL
MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ ProgramFilesDir\-

This is Windows main reference on %PROGRAMFILES%. Thing is, Windows
itself is locking many of the files within this folder, so you can't
re-target the whole folder right away. So, grab an
FreeDOS/MSDOS/Hiren/whatever boot disc, and then move (eg. -'ren
"C:\Program Files" "D:\Progs"'-)

Some people say you could just boot into fail-safe mode, and you'd
be
able to rename the directory. I haven't tried it, so I wouldn't know.
To
be honest, I havn't tried this method at all, it's all theory for
now.
But it sounds like a plan. Just to be safe, after successfully
booting
with the new main registry key, plus the changed directory, you
could
search the registry in its whole for oldisch \Program files\
entries,
and pull a simple "Replace all" on that.

So, any thoughts, ideas?


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How am I slowing Windoze down by changing this key? After all, the
regkey is for reference, huh? The idea is -- of course -- that I dislike
the 'long path' of default %PROGRAMFILES%. I'm using NTFS junction
points to have access through eg. C:\P\ for now, but moving the whole
kit and kaboodle sounds nifty to me!


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