Installation on XP.

[Robert Eldon Taylor]

Regards to All,

I am a public accountant which means, unfortunately, I must use
quickbooks and quicken, because my clients do.  But many clients don't
need to be spending money on accounting systems which are changed for
absolutely no reason other than to generate revenue for the vendor, so
for some time I have looked for a simple, basic and free accounting
system to recommend to such people.   Googling around I found GnuCash
which, though free, is neither simple nor basic.  I installed it on an
old machine to play with and have been very impressed.

One of the most impressive features is the excellent tutorial and
concepts guide which I am recommending to clients who are innocent of
any accounting concepts.

Also impressive is this user group.

I did run into one problem which I would like to resolve before
installing on my own machine or recommending to someone else.  I am
using windows XP.  When gnucash installed in made a very mess of the
user-name folder
(i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\RTaylor), putting all sorts of files
and subdirectories,
(e.g. .gconf, .gnome2, etc.) directly into the user-name folder
instead of setting up a gnucash folder in the Application Data folder
(e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\RTaylor\Application Data\Mozilla).
After playing with the product a bit, and being rather impressed, I
uninstalled and deleted all the files and folders which gnucash had
installed and reinstalled from scratch making sure that there was no
option to tell it where to install.  But maybe there is some option I
missed.

To clarify the problem, in Windows the user-name folder is like the
root directory on the old single user dos systems.  First rule - put
nothing in the root directory.  Many users, probably most, are unaware
of the problem, but I have hundreds of programs installed on my
system.  If they all behaved like this there would be thousands of
entries in the user-name folder instead of only twenty-six.

I am hoping there is a simple way around this problem.

Best Wishes,

Bob Taylor, EA.
R. E. Taylor, Taxes and Accounting

General Accounting, US and State Taxes, for small business and
individuals.



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R. E. Taylor, Taxes and Accounting

General Accounting, US and State Taxes, for small business and 
individuals.

Bob Taylor, EA.
(706) 202-9143
Enrolled Agent, admitted to represent taxpayers before the Internal 
Revenue Service.


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