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  2. User profiles in Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    The user-profiling scheme in force today owes its origins to Windows NT, which stored its profiles within the system folder itself, typically under C:\WINNT\Profiles\. Windows 2000 saw the change to a separate "Documents and Settings" folder for profiles, and in this respect is virtually identical to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

  3. Environment variable - Wikipedia

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    In all Unix and Unix-like systems, as well as on Windows, each process has its own separate set of environment variables.By default, when a process is created, it inherits a duplicate run-time environment of its parent process, except for explicit changes made by the parent when it creates the child.

  4. Directory structure - Wikipedia

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    It also has two folder like-items called "Default User" (an NTFS junction point to "Default" folder) and "All Users" (a NTFS symbolic link to "C:\ProgramData"). \Public: This folder serves as a buffer for users of a computer to share files. By default this folder is accessible to all users that can log on to the computer.

  5. Home directory - Wikipedia

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    A home directory is a file system directory on a multi-user operating system containing files for a given user of the system. The specifics of the home directory (such as its name and location) are defined by the operating system involved; for example, Linux / BSD systems use /home/ username or /usr/home/ username and Windows systems since Windows Vista use \Users\ username .

  6. C localization functions - Wikipedia

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    In computing, C localization functions are a group of functions in the C programming language implementing basic localization routines. [1] [2] The functions are used in multilingual programs to adapt to the specific locale. In particular, the way of displaying of numbers and currency can be modified.

  7. Handle (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The FILE data structure in the C standard I/O library is a file handle, abstracting from the underlying file representation (on Unix these are file descriptors). Like other desktop environments, the Windows API heavily uses handles to represent objects in the system and to provide a communication pathway between the operating system and user space.

  8. Entry point - Wikipedia

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    In most of today's popular programming languages and operating systems, a computer program usually only has a single entry point.. In C, C++, D, Zig, Rust and Kotlin programs this is a function named main; in Java it is a static method named main (although the class must be specified at the invocation time), and in C# it is a static method named Main.

  9. Roaming user profile - Wikipedia

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    A roaming user profile is a file synchronization concept in the Windows NT family of operating systems that allows users with a computer joined to a Windows domain to log on to any computer on the same domain and access their documents and have a consistent desktop experience, such as applications remembering toolbar positions and preferences, or the desktop appearance staying the same, while ...