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"Susan Sharm" <susanshaarm@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>The common files location really belongs in the Windows folder. Unless
>I missed the point totally of "common files", how does what goes in
>there any different than the miriad of common files which also go into
>the Windows system folders?

I disagree (and so do Microsoft). Common files are application level
files shared by more than one application, but not part of the system.

In fact, the tendency to dump everything into the system has led to
the "DLL hell" from which we are only now starting to escape.

Common files is one of over a dozen special purpose folders, and its
default location is c:\program files\Common files (in English
systems).  It has data and programs shared between different suites,
typically by the same vendor.   My Common Files\Adobe folder contains
42 folder and 677 files.  My Common Files\Microsoft Shared  folder
contains a similar number. Overall there is over 500 MB in over 2000
files.
>
>2. The hierarchical structure in "My Programs" is the same in "My
>Application Data". Instead of the jumbled mess that Microsoft supplies,
>the "My Application Data" simply uses the same hierarchy as "My
>Programs".

Although you can move the Documents and settings\USERNAME\Application
Data folder, I don't see that you can change the internal arrangement
at all, since these names are usually built into programs. 
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