![]() ![]() Applications should never create or modify anything in your documents folder without your permission. Do you see any files or folders in there that you personally did not create? If so, you've been victimized. Take a look in your Documents folder right now. ![]() Keep your dirty, filthy paws out of my personal user space! Now that we've established what and where user space is, I have a message for all the programmers reading this- including myself. If a user is keeping notes in a text file, we can reasonably expect to find those notes at the following path:ĭocuments and SettingsUserMy Documentsnotes.txt Regardless, I'm glad we no longer have to deal with a scarily long default user path - with aggravating embedded spaces, even- to our personal stuff. It gives new life to the famous quote "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly". ![]() ![]() This new Vista user space folder structure may seem oddly familiar to people using operating systems based on Unix. Here's the user space folder structure in the Windows XP operating system:Īnd here's the user space folder structure in the Windows Vista operating system: What is user space? User space is the location in the filesystem where users put their personal files- their "stuff". ![]()
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