The location of the User Profile for Network Service on Windows Server 2008 & 7

This kind of thing should be easy to find, but I couldn't hunt it down on google. So to save someone else some pain, here it is - the location of the %USERPROFILE% / home directory for the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService user:

(drum roll...)

%systemroot%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService

which usually translates as:

c:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService

The user profiles for other "well known" service accounts (such as LocalService) are siblings of this directory.

I hope that saves someone some time...

Ballmer gets that search thing wrong...

Microsoft are rather obviously obsessed with getting their search revenues up. That's no surprise - pretty much everyone knows about their [twice] failed Yahoo bid. Then there is their cashback offer, and now the announcement of a plan to provide search facilities (and therefore advertising revenue) on Facebook. It makes sense. Search is big business.

It seems, however, that Steve Ballmer has forgotten why people actually use search engines. Apparently he thinks that:

"advertisers don’t want to sell on Live Search unless there’s more people using the site, and people don’t want to search on the site unless there are more relevant ads."
Source: CNN

Oh dear.

Surely Ballmer cannot believe that Google's near domination of the global search market was down to relevant ads? Can he? That would make him slightly crazy...