Arthur S. Alexion on Sun, 7 Jul 2002 23:03:48 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Memory hardware questions


On Sunday 07 July 2002 07:32 pm, Art Clemons wrote:
> > BTW, Art, in connection with those brain dead installation programs
> > that want to put themselves on c:\program files, can you move the
> > contents of program files to , say, the e:\ drive, delete the
> > directory c:\program files, and replace it with a short cut of the
> > same name (a symlink) that points to the e:\ directory? (sorry for
> > this OT question, everyone)
>
> Windows doesn't do symlinks as far as I know.  However, I did learn
> that I could copy any files written to c:\?? to d:\windows or
> e:\program files\??? rather easily with minimal chance of the
> braindead program objecting except when it's time to uninstall.

*.lnk files have some of the properties of symlinks.  I never thought 
of this before your post, but I'm going to try an experiment.
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