[softwarelist] Re: CrossStar

In message of 27 Dec, Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4e9bf301f5steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 27 Dec, Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In article <4e9b84a1dbsteve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Pampling
> > >    <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > > The would be because you allowed it to go into a specific user
> > > > profile directory when you did the install...
> 
> > > At install I get a choice of where I want the .exe and other crud put,
> > > but don't get a choice of where the installer puts other stuff(In Docs
> > > and Settings for example).
> 
> > Right click Start, Click explore, then explore to appropriate directory,
> > click item, CTRL-X, explore to All users,  explore to appropriate
> > directory, click CTRL-V
> 
> > Interesting idea for moving shortcuts from one directory to another. :-)
> 
> > Know thine enemy.
> 
> Blimey Steve is that all, I was expecting something sophisticated... Even
> I know about doing it that way...
> You haven't considered some applications have links in their configuration
> that point to the place where the Crud has been deposited... Granted, if I
> wanted to I could manually go into the configs and repoint, but that's a
> lot of additional work. And that would make me very Grumpy!

You should rejoice in the opportunity to do something new and useful to
the rest of mankind.  Think of Napier when he invented slide rules and
log tables: it must have taken him years to do all the sums for all the
numbers.  But Napier must have rejoiced in doing this, though he may not
have seen quite how useful it was going to be for much of the next 400
years. I cannot believe he would have completed such a project if he was
in a continued self-aggrandising grump.

-- 
Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@xxxxxxxxx
             For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

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