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> These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

Almost forgot what paths on Windows look like lol

They wanted to make sure every third party product could handle long paths and spaces in paths, otherwise it would have been C:\Users.

It’s a lot to type and there are spaces.

I am glad they switched to C:\Users\billg\Pictures

Missed opportunity to call it C:\Home\billg\Pictures (going for slash instead of backslash is too ambitious).