[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> wouldn't be easier to propose the user as a option where he wants to put
> his(her) preference files ?

Allow users to specify where they want prefernce files, yes.

*Require* users to specify where they want preference files, no.  I'd
like to find a default that gives the right answer most of the time, and
allow the users for whom it isn't the right answer to override it.

> furthermore on win2k : the application user directory is much like :
> "c:\Documents and Settings\user\..."

Yes, I knew that - and, on my office machine running NT
5.0^H^H^H^H^H^HW2K, "USERPROFILE" is set to "C:\Documents and Setting\guy",
so that *is* the user's profile directory, it just doesn't happen to
have the word "profile" in the path name.