"C:\Documents and Settings" after upgrade?

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Jan Wagner - 29 Nov 2006 19:53 GMT

Hi,

more a "nice to know" question here:

After doing an upgrade from XP SP2 to Vista RTM, it seems what was
previously "C:\Documents and Settings" is now C:\Users, but the
folder "C:\Documents and Settings" is still there. Running cmd.exe
as Administrator or normal user, "dir "C:\Documents and Settings""
just says File Not Found. NTFS messed up? Or is Documents and
Settings still used by Vista?

- Jan

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Josh - 29 Nov 2006 20:10 GMT

read this

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/09/28/Windows-Vista-Ju
nction-Points.aspx

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Jan Wagner - 29 Nov 2006 20:46 GMT

> read this
>
> http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/09/28/Windows-Vista-Ju
nction-Points.aspx

Ah yes, true, and

cd \
dir /a:s
...
02.11.2006 15:00 <JUNCTION> Documents and Settings [C:\Users]
...

Haven't seen much use of these before in Win2k and XP, so seeing it
actually in use in Vista was a surprise :-)

Btw good tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Junction.mspx

Thanks for the blog link!

- Jan

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Josh - 29 Nov 2006 21:32 GMT

Sure thing!

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