Edi wrote:
You forget, this is Windows we're talking about, where everything has been designed to fuck everything else up if the user so much as thinks about modifying settings from the default Microshit ones.
Sounds like some shitty drivers somewhere, posible spyware or the like too.
I've had several computers where the temp directory isnt even writable from a user limited account and it hasnt caused an issue at all(beyond DOS programs expecting the temp directory to be writable when running under a resirticted account).
Dont blame windows or Microsoft, WinXP will not crash from just changing the temp directory location. It requires some 3rd party crap.
Windows XP original defaulted the TEMP and TMP system variables to point to "C:\Windows\temp" which limited users didnt have write permisions to by default. This changed in later releases to point to "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" as it should have.
They're set to "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" by default for every user account, and you need to modify them from the accounts themselves to change them. But I don't feel like digging through the whole damned system to find them when I want them cleared (because Windows doesn't clear them automatically, those directories can easily accumulate huge amounts of shit if left to their own devices. It's not just DOS apps that use temp folders, a whole crapload of Windows ones do as well.
Change the TEMP & TMP variables under "system variables" and not "user variables for <username>"
If you dont have custom user versions defined, the system TEMP and TMP expand to their full path for the user once they login, and they show up under the user variables.
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