The easiest workaround is to use the subst command:
subst P: "\documents and settings\adam\desktop"

Will make drive P be the root in my desktop directory.  In your case,
something like:
subst P: "\documents and settings\adam\My Documents\Projects"

Would put everything in the projects directory at the root of P.

It stays active after you close the command window (or you can use it in
the run command), and you can put it inside a batch file and drop that
in your start directory (I don't think it's static - probably goes away
after reboot).  A more permanent fix is to use the junction command at
sysinternals http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml if
you're using NTFS as your file system under windows NT/2k/xp.

The reason the limit was there for previous versions was to support
users on windows 3.1.  I thought they were going to get rid of it with
v6, and go to 32bit...

-Adam

cdb wrote:

>On another point, to me it is still annoying that MPLAB still has a
>restriction on the path depth.  I've had to move the MPLAB projects
>out of my projects folder on my desktop and put it in Program
>files\MPLAB\projects as the windows path to the desktop folder is 54
>characters long.
>
>
>

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