>>>In the beginning (well, in 1995), it was simply the default folder where applications like Office 95 would want to save data. I think they have changed the functionality of it slightly over time, to make it more special... <s>
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>>...which brings me to a futile duty to delete "My Pictures" folder from it about once in a few weeks, and it still gets created behind my back. I wish I knew which piece of software is doing that.
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>On mine, that appeared when IE6 was installed.
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>IE6 also keeps on recreating "C:\My Download Files" folder, I've given up trying to delete that one.

Wasn't it one of the big advantages of Windows-type installs, that the user was in control? Like, you can't sell software today if it creates a bunch of directories on C:\ without asking the user where does he want the things to be put? All the setup tools automatically provide for this option, so to win a Windows logo you must and do have this, and your software must and does work wherever the user chooses to install it. Any software developing company must comply to this else they can kiss their sales good bye.

Unless they are Microsoft.

BTW, I've got IE 5.5 SP2, but since I've just discovered the other day that Netscape 6.2 works with my bank's website, my last reason to use it is gone. I keep it for testing web pages, of course, and when I need to instantiate a browser object from VFP.

BTW, does anyone know how to set a default browser? Netscape wasn't that rude to set itself as one without asking, it actually did nothing of the kind. I tried editing filetypes and managed to set the mailto: url to work, but not html files and hyperlinks, so whichever program has a link in it, it still launches IE on me. Netscape's help is nearly as bad as IEs.