[XEmacs] Install Wizard

[Glynn Clements]

Adrian Aichner wrote:

> "Vin Shelton" <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:
> 
> > On 4/2/06, Sabine 'Sani' Schulz <nemo at schnuerpel.net> wrote:
> >> Vin Shelton wrote:
> >>
> >> [..]
> >>
> >> > As far as the 'Start in' field in the shortcut - that is easily
> >> > customized and I don't necessarily think it makes a lot of sense to
> >> > set it in the setup kit.  I'll think about this and see if anything
> >> > worthwhile comes to mind.
> >
> > In the newest setup kits, I have modified the 'Start in' field to be
> > %USERPROFILE%\"My Documents".  I'm not sure what I think about this
> > change.
> 
> Danger, Vin, "My Documents" is only correct for the American and
> English version of Windows.
> 
> Perhaps %USERPROFILE% is the best we can do?

AFAICT, the relevant registry key is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal

There are a whole bunch of these keys under "Shell Folders", so I
would guess that those are all of the per-user directories which are
meaningful to the shell.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>