2006/8/20, Talha Yalta <talhayalta@gmail.com>:

C:\Documents and Settings\Talha\Application Data

In Windows XP, most applications craete a subfolder under this
directory however I don't know how to obtain the username variable (in
the above case "Talha" is the account name). During install, some
programs also ask the question "Install for all users or this user
only?" or something like that.

On 8/20/06, Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu> wrote:
> Responding to comments made by Sven a while ago, I'm thinking of
> changing the default installation directories for gretl 1.6.0 on
> Windows.  The current default of "c:\userdata\gretl" makes sense
> at Wake Forest University but probably seems odd to most people.
>
> For the program itself, "c:\Program Files" (or equivalent) seems
> the obvious choice.  But what about the "user" directory?  Where
> should that go?  Perhaps, in the same tree that Word and Excel
> use for saving user files by default, but what is that?  (Sorry,
> I boot Windows very seldom and I don't know these things.)
>
> [In case anyone suggests using the "HOME" environment variable,
> let me pre-emptively state that that is not a Windows-ish thing,
> and it's not possible to access it using the Inno Setup
> installer with any degree of ease.]
>
> Allin Cottrell
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