SZ - Vista - junction point for C:\Documents and Settings

Can someone help me by opening a command prompt in a Vaio SZ with Vista and typing:

dir C:\Documents*


My "C:\Documents and Settings" junction point was somehow mapped to "S:\Users" instead of the expected "C:\Users" - from a full restore. I'm puzzled.

 

In Vista, they got rid of C:\Documents and Settings and instead put all of the user directories under C:\Users. On my SZ460 with preinstalled Vista Business, there is no C:\Documents and Settings, just C:\Users.

 

There *is* actually C:\Documents and Settings - they just made it hidden. They create what is called a "junction point" which is like a hard link pointing to C:\Users. They had to create this hard link to ensure that programs which expected such a path to exist to continue to function normally.

My point was that mine was automatically created and pointing t the wrong place S:\Users instead of the normal C:\Users.

If you type
dir /ah
in your cmd at C:\, you will see it listed.

I was wondering what everyone else's linked to.

 

With "dir /ah" mine shows the following:

11/02/2006 06:02 AM <JUNCTION> Documents and Settings [Y:\Users]

And I don't have a Y:. If I try "Y:" I get:

C:\>y:
The system cannot find the drive specified.

 

Thx Mikey!! Kinda confirmed my suspicions. I wonder what the heck Sony are doing randomly mapping it.

 

yep that sounds dodgy, on my clean install it maps to c:\users