Re: Moving desktop and Programs folders
- From: "Bruce Eitman [eMVP]" <bruce.eitman.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:58:31 -0400
You can also run an app at startup that copies things to RAM. Of course you
would do that from within your OS image, but configure it from your install.
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"Talbot" <Talbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am working on PB5. I am considering how to install/deploy software
updates
for our users. Our OS uses a RAM/ROM FS but our device does power off
often.
Therefor, I loose everything which is not in the OS nk.bin, BUT if I put
all
of our software in NK.bin, I get a large image which takes over a minute
to
boot. I'd like to have a lean NK.bin and load our software into our
\\Mounted Volume\\ flash storage. CAB installers seem like a good way to
install our software, except that if I install desktop or start menu
links,
they are lost on power-cycle. I found
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Explorer\Shell Folders] and thought I could
override the two paths in my project.reg. This leads to the questions:
a) Sure, this would let me move where the OS looks for desktop/start menu
items, but it won't help me change where apps install too. For example,
wordpad and media player icons are forced into \\Windows\LOC_DESKTOP_DIR,
etc. Obviosuly I could change the public source but that doesn't feel
right.
Is there a trick here, or am I way off in what I'm attempting?
b) If I ever want to localize my OS, I'm stuck cause I just hardcoded the
paths. I can't figure out how to combine the LOC_PATH_* definitions with
the
\\Mounted Volume path because of the quotes in LOC_PATH_*. Is there a way
to
override the root path but keep localized names?
.
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