[Shu-cdromlan] Re: default save to A:

[Tom Edelblute]

I tried it out on one of our NT machines and I cannot get it to work.  Could there
be more than one registry setting that I need to look at?
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Robert Sullivan wrote:

> To answer the questions from Tom and Doris:
>
> >> This value is stored at:
> >>
> >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
> >> User Shell Folders\Personal
> >>
> >> and is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.
>
> >That looks good as far as it goes.  But what is the value that we need to put
> >into that field?
>
> A:\ or wherever you want to send it.
>
> >Is there a way to do this with Netscape also?
>
> Don't know for sure - I just put 4.08 on my PC to test some pages, but I
> haven't used it regularly for a long time.  I looked at its files and Registry
> keys and didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean a setting does not exist.
>
> The easiest thing to do would be to try the value above and see if it works -
> it's not an IE-specific command, so perhaps programs which don't have their own
> settings will use that one.
>
> Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli@sals.edu
> Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org