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Sardtokyesterday at 6:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Always... Except for the decades before this became common. Never a bloated C: root directory. Microsoft even had games store stuff in My Documents\Games at one point. My Documents was a user dir that saw a lot of abuse over the years.


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SAI_Peregrinusyesterday at 7:05 PM

They still have that, it's just `My Documents\My Games` now. And Visual Studio makes a folder in My Documents for every annual release. And…