Well, rationale was to have programmatically defined and common places for specific stuff. As I remember registry also had similar reasoning behind it and just look how crappy result is.

MS apparently like to put stuff in boxes, just doesn’t bother to keep them in order. :)

Not entirely sure of the rationale behind system folders.
And, if Vista is going to have ‘em, then it ought to come
with a native applet for finding the damn things.

Here’s a good tutorial for changing system folder defaults:

http://www.vistarevisited.com/2008/01/05/how-to-change-your-default-folders-in-vista-for-musicdocumentspictures/

The DataRat

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