How to change the 'windows' directory

[Nexus_Guy]

Hi,

Is there a way to change or redirect the windows directory? For example in React OS the windows directory is 'C:\ReacOS\....'

Thanks,
Nexus_Guy

[dimesio]

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix

[Nexus_Guy]

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix

Those intructions only talk about the 'bottle' location which is the whole windows installation location. I wan't to change the 'windows' folder specifically. Simply renaming it for example (which would break wine in a normal situation).

[dimesio]

Yes, renaming it would break Wine, just as it would break Windows if you did it on Windows. Wine will also automatically recreate the windows directory, although incompletely, if it does not exist in the wineprefix when you run something in Wine. Renaming the windows directory and then creating a symlink named windows pointing to it does seem to work, but I haven't tested it beyond running winecfg.

[Nexus_Guy]

Thanks, the symlink should be the way to go.