Try setting a HOME environmental variable value to point to a local directory. I think that is usually the default for most applications. On NT the system environmental variables are set in control_panel/system/environment - I don't know where they ended up in W2K. Of course, once they read far enough in the manuals they'll be able to stop you from doing that as well, but hopefully they won't make it that far. The other option is to individually change the 'start in' directory in the properties for the icon/shortcut that is starting the process to point to a local directory. --rick Justin Kremer wrote: >Sort of on the same topic, I am having issues with my computer at work. >I have recently been forced to join my networked computer to a W2K >Domain, which sucks majorly, and now as part of the logon, my system has >an H: drive (network drive) which seems to be set as some sort of a >home-ish directory. When i run cmd, it starts in H: and putty and >OpenSSH always want to drop their user configuration files there. >That's incredibly annoying to me because I want my configuration files >for things like that stored locally. Does anyone know how to fix this >problem? >I've done some searching on the internet, but I don't know what >Microsoft calls that kind of stuff and the words I use to describe it >are very general terms which don't turn up anything even remotely useful >to me. I've spent hours scouring my registry for something that looks >suspect. I don't dare ask the IS guys who control my network this >question because they'll just tell me to go f*** myself. If they were >allowed to COMPLETELY have their way, then encryption, linux, and pretty >much anything not spoonfed to them by their Microsoft sales rep, would >probably not be allowed in the building. And MCSE's probably wouldn't >be allowed either, because anyone with one of those might know how to >break their precious network. >Sorry for the vent. I'm frustrated. > > > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list