It's mostly an organizational issue. It's never been a good practice to
create files in the root of a drive. The simpler you keep the tree structure
the easier it is to find things and to backup data. Allowing users to create
files in the root of the system drive can also be a security problem. As
rights normally propagate from the root you then have to go in and
explicitly block inheritance on subfolders to restrict access. For the best
security this should be the other way around. You should need to block
inheritance to grant access not restrict access. This ensures that users
(and malware) will not accidently get access to write to system files.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2

"Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Mmmh.. I used the root folder just to test Vista's behaivior. And btw why
> shouldn't I use the C: folder? I somehow got the weird attitute my OS
> should
> do what I want and not hide files or even entire folders from me. On the
> other hand, you get the feeling MS does not want users to look into
> certain
> folders and to really administrate their own computer because they hide
> entire folders by default!
>
> But never mind, I fixed it :-). You can turn the whole "folder type"
> thingy
> off by modifying the registry.
>
> Thanks again for your answers,
>
> Thomas