OT: I'm 95% Linux, but need a little win.xp help

[Technomage Hawke]

what you could do instead (if you have a hachine with enough
capability in ram, storage, etc), install winxp in a vmware instance.

this way, you don't have to dual-boot the machine and you can then do
what you need and turn it off (the vmware instance) when done). its
what I do here.

now as to your questions, you can change those names and modify their
env variables so that the system knows where to look for them. as for
spaces, its not uncommon in the UNIX world to have spaces int he
filenames either. using a [TAB] key in console gets you what you want
in short order. unfortunately, this isn't something useful in windows.

what you are talking about though is going to require a little time
and some editing of a lot of system variables to make it work
properly.

its why the only reason I have a dedicated windows machine is for WoW
9and some other windows only MMORPG's). otherwise, I just don't worry
about it much.

On 5/30/08, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> .
>  While I use Linux for 95% of my work, I still have to use
>  win.xp for a few things and sure would like to find someone
>  (or someplace like PLUG) where I could submit questions that
>  come up from time.
>
>  M$ is terribly frustrating, and I wish I could discard it
>  entirely; but I'm stuck with having to use it for some things.
>
>  The M$ file and directory structure seems very lame and confusing.
>
>  Is there any way to eliminate that ridiculous "My" in several
>  folder names?  "My Computer" "My Documents" "My Pictures" etc.
>
>  Can one just rename all those folders to eliminate "My" ...
>  and eliminate spaces in *all* file and folder/directory names?
>
>  And why does "My Documents" show up in more than one place?
>
>
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