Date   : Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:39:13 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: [OT-ish] PC equivalent of Library

On 01/10/2012 09:50, Paul Vernon wrote:
> For example, where Documents are stored in
> DRIVE:\Users\user.name\Documents you might like to place apps in
> DRIVE:\Users\user.name\Applications.
>
> For Windows XP then you've got the poorly named "Documents and Settings"
> folder that stores User based data so it will be workable but not
> particularly intuitive on that version of Windows to store your Apps in
> the user structures under the "Documents and Settings" directory structure.
>
> Convention wise, what you call your Applications directory is pretty
> much up to you. Personally I'd shy away from using a Unix naming
> convention on Windows such as "bin" and use something that fits in with
> Windows a bit more. Something like "Applications" or "Program Files"
> within the user structure would seem more fitting.

Personally I would not install binaries into "Documents and settings" or 
"user", as these (or part of these in the case of win7), are copied up 
to the server if you are on a network that has roaming profiles. For 
home networks this is probably not a problem, but it's a bad habit to 
get into. Of course this is probably not a problem for script files, but 
is a problem if you start installing MSOffice in there :( :(

Personally c:\utils or even c:\program files\local or something like 
that would be my choice.

Cheers.

Phill.