Topic: c:\vedit versus %HOMEDRIVE%\vedit (1 of 4), Read 30 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 03:10 PM

Hello fellow Vedit users:

Has anybody installed vedit into the HOMEDIRECTORY

%HOMEDRIVE%\vedit instead of the default c:\vedit directory.


Here is my motivation for my question:
I am upgrading to Windows XP and I have two hard drives on my computer. Sometimes I boot from the first hard drive, sometimes from the second.

So,I thought that the %HOMEDRIVE% predefined string would automatically put me into the vedit HOMEDIRCTORY of the drive from which I booted.


I have also tried a special case. Specifically, from the start menu I typed,

%HOMEDRIVE%\vedit\vpw

and this indeed got the same response as c:\vedit\vpw

Thanks,

-peter

 


Topic: c:\vedit versus %HOMEDRIVE%\vedit (2 of 4), Read 34 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 07:51 PM

Peter,

I too run multi-boot systems, and I have a number of applications, vedit included, which I share between these.

In general, for applications which are not dependent on the registry - vedit is one such, they can be merely copied.

In fact I put these on a data drive d:, and map all systems to allocate the same drive letter to this.

I assume your systems boot to different letters e.g. my Win98 is c:, 2K in e:

The easiest way to do handle this is to install Vedit using the option for a USB key, which omits drive letters, although you can just edit vedit.ini

 


Topic: c:\vedit versus %HOMEDRIVE%\vedit (3 of 4), Read 39 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2007 09:33 PM

On 9/15/2007 7:51:47 PM, Ian Binnie wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I too run multi-boot systems,
>and I have a number of
>applications, vedit included,
>which I share between these.
>
>In general, for applications
>which are not dependent on the
>registry - vedit is one such,
>they can be merely copied.
>
>In fact I put these on a data
>drive d:, and map all systems
>to allocate the same drive
>letter to this.
>
>I assume your systems boot to
>different letters e.g. my
>Win98 is c:, 2K in e:
>
>The easiest way to do handle
>this is to install Vedit using
>the option for a USB key,
>which omits drive letters,
>although you can just edit
>vedit.ini



Thanks Ian,

I shall try it.

I also would like to learn more about
how you
"map all systems to allocate the same drive"

Thanks again,

-peter

 


Topic: c:\vedit versus %HOMEDRIVE%\vedit (4 of 4), Read 40 times
Conf: Installation, Configuration
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Sunday, September 16, 2007 07:50 AM

Look at Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management

This lets you allocate drive letters (except to System or Boot drives)