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   <Header>
      <Title>Installation directory of Infor BW</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e1351823">
         <Level1>Infor BW</Level1>
         <Level2>installation directory</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>The installation directory is created during the setup process
		of Infor BW. The default installation directory for the various Infor BW
		versions is shown in the following table.</Paragraph>
      <TABLE width="100%" border="1" borderstyle="default"
             space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
         <TBODY noTR="5">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TH colspan="3" rowspan="1">Default Installation Directory</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="false">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Version</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Type</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Installation Directory</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="3" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Infor ERP Baan IVc4</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MSI</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">C:\Program Files\Baan\BaanIV</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="4" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Infor ERP Baan 5.0c</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MSI</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">C:\Program Files\Baan\Baan ERP5</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="5" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">ERP Enterprise</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MSI</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">C:\Program Files\Baan\Baan Windows</TD>
            </TR>
         </TBODY>
      </TABLE>
      <Paragraph>During the setup, you can change this installation directory.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>On Windows Vista, Windows 2008 or later, the default
		installation directories are as follows:</Paragraph>
      <TABLE width="100%" border="1" borderstyle="default"
             space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
         <TBODY noTR="4">
            <TR no="1" isLast="false">
               <TH colspan="3" rowspan="1">Default Installation Directory</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="2" isLast="false">
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Version</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Type</TH>
               <TH rowspan="1" colspan="1">Installation Directory</TH>
            </TR>
            <TR no="3" isLast="false">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">Infor ERP Baan IVc4</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MSI</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">C:\Program Files(x86)\Infor\BW\Baan IV</TD>
            </TR>
            <TR no="4" isLast="true">
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">ERP Enterprise</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">MSI</TD>
               <TD rowspan="1" colspan="1">C:\Program Files(x86)\Infor\BW\ERPLN</TD>
            </TR>
         </TBODY>
      </TABLE>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>The following subdirectories are created in this
		  directory:</ListIntro>
         <ListItemHead>bin:</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>This directory contains the bw.exe program to start the Infor
		  Baan ERP application, as well as other binaries.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>lib:</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>This directory contains the files bw.tlb (type library
		  information for OLE Automation) and tss_bw (language support).</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Log (not on Windows Vista or later):</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>This directory can contain logging information about Infor BW.
		  Usually Infor BW will send its logging information to the Windows Event system,
		  which can be viewed using the Windows Event Viewer.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>Tmp (not on Windows Vista or later):</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Contains the temporary files.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>help:</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Contains the Help files.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>lib\user (not on Windows Vista or later):</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Contains the BW Configuration (.bwc) files.</ListItem>
      </List>
      <Paragraph>The following subdirectories are created in the directory <Code>%SystemRoot%\Baan</Code>:</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>On Vista or later, the directory is located at <Code>%SystemDrive%\Infor\ERPLN\commonx86</Code>
      </Paragraph>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>bin:</ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>This directory contains all binaries that are shared between
		  various versions of BW, for example, becs.exe.</ListItem>
      </List>
      <Paragraph>On Windows Vista or later, for each user who uses the Infor BW
		software, the following subdirectory is created in his local application data
		directory:</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>
         <Code>C:\Users\&lt;user
		name&gt;\AppData\Local\Infor\BW\&lt;environment name&gt;</Code>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>In this directory, subdirectories will be added when needed,
		such as <GUIRef href="" role="manual">log</GUIRef> for logging information, <GUIRef href="" role="manual">tmp</GUIRef> for
		temporary files, and <GUIRef href="" role="manual">config</GUIRef> for BW Configuration (.bwc)
		files.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>