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Who comes up with these pathnames? Is there some kind of internal Microsoft award for Most Obscure File or Registry Structure?
Visual Studio Project Location -> %USER%\source\repos instead of a short %USER%\Projects My Documents instead of Documents. My Pictures instead of Pictures.
%Windows%\SysWow64 -> storing 32bit DLLs %Windows%\System32 -> storing 64bit DLLs %Windows%\System -> storing 16bit DLLs
"Documents and Settings" instead of Home of Users.
"Program Files" instead of "Applications"
Their registry paths are even worse with setting names using double negatives.