[Gretl-users] Windows installation directories

[Raquel Guimarães]

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users - i'm current using 2000 NT

Greetings, Raquel


2006/8/20, Talha Yalta <talhayalta at gmail.com>:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Talha\Application Data
>
> In Windows XP, most applications craete a subfolder under this
> directory however I don't know how to obtain the username variable (in
> the above case "Talha" is the account name). During install, some
> programs also ask the question "Install for all users or this user
> only?" or something like that.
>
>
>
>
> On 8/20/06, Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:
> > Responding to comments made by Sven a while ago, I'm thinking of
> > changing the default installation directories for gretl 1.6.0 on
> > Windows.  The current default of "c:\userdata\gretl" makes sense
> > at Wake Forest University but probably seems odd to most people.
> >
> > For the program itself, "c:\Program Files" (or equivalent) seems
> > the obvious choice.  But what about the "user" directory?  Where
> > should that go?  Perhaps, in the same tree that Word and Excel
> > use for saving user files by default, but what is that?  (Sorry,
> > I boot Windows very seldom and I don't know these things.)
> >
> > [In case anyone suggests using the "HOME" environment variable,
> > let me pre-emptively state that that is not a Windows-ish thing,
> > and it's not possible to access it using the Inno Setup
> > installer with any degree of ease.]
> >
> > Allin Cottrell
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Raquel Guimarães
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