03-13-2024, 12:39 PM
As @Terry wrote, the directories in question were introduced under Vista, as I recall, and are controlled accordingly by the system. MS imitates here the home directory under Linux.
@bplus - one can easily avoid the whole problem with these directories if you split up your hard drive. I've been doing this since MS-DOS times. As an example a 500GB HD:
C:\ - 200GB NTFS. This is where the system and various programs are located, not data.
Extended partition with two logical drives.
D:\ - 250GB NTFS. Here are programs and personal data such as texts, images, etc.
E:\ - 50GB FAT32 for old programs that don't run under NTFS such as CoralDRAW 9.0, and more.
So there are no problems. At least it never happened for me.
@bplus - one can easily avoid the whole problem with these directories if you split up your hard drive. I've been doing this since MS-DOS times. As an example a 500GB HD:
C:\ - 200GB NTFS. This is where the system and various programs are located, not data.
Extended partition with two logical drives.
D:\ - 250GB NTFS. Here are programs and personal data such as texts, images, etc.
E:\ - 50GB FAT32 for old programs that don't run under NTFS such as CoralDRAW 9.0, and more.
So there are no problems. At least it never happened for me.