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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TTOSBT who wrote (42569)	4/19/2000 4:07:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

That will not take "never" out of the argument. In Windows, user settings are stored in: - Win.ini - ini files in different directories - System registry - User registry - Different files around the harddisk. If you want to reinstall all this onto a newly installed Windows, you've got a big, big problem. This will not change so long that Windows programs behave like they do. What makes Linux different? Well, programs can only rely on being able to change harddisk information at one place: In the users home directory. Therefore programs and data are completely separated, and you can reinstall everything without being afraid of damaging a single user setting. Even if you get yourself a new employer, you just zip all the contents of your homedirectory, take it to the new employer's Linux server, unzip it, and your icons, colours etc. are all like they were on the old system. Cute, isn't it?