diff -riwbBu -Xex aspell-setter-sep06/common/config.cpp aspell-setter-sep06-modified/common/config.cpp
--- aspell-setter-sep06/common/config.cpp	Mon Dec 12 17:41:06 2005
+++ aspell-setter-sep06-modified/common/config.cpp	Sun Sep 17 20:55:02 2006
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@
 
 namespace aspell {
 
+#ifdef WIN32PORT
+	HKEY GetRegHive();
+	aspell::String ReadRegString(HKEY type, aspell::String key, aspell::String name);
+#endif
+
   const char * const keyinfo_type_name[4] = {
     N_("string"), N_("integer"), N_("boolean"), N_("list")
   };
@@ -642,20 +647,30 @@
 
       } else if (strcmp(i, "home-dir") == 0) { 
 
-        //get the personal folder (e.g. "c:\My Documents")
+        //get the personal folder
+
+        //get from registry
+		HKEY hive;
+		hive = GetRegHive();
+		final_str = ReadRegString(hive, "Software\\Aspell", "Base Path");
+
+		//default location
+		if (final_str == "") {
         char * dir = new char[MAX_PATH];
         LPITEMIDLIST items = 0;
-        HRESULT hand = SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(0, CSIDL_PERSONAL, &items);
+          HRESULT hand = SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(0, CSIDL_APPDATA, &items);
         if ((NOERROR == hand) && items) {
           if (SHGetPathFromIDList(items, dir)) {
             for (char *ptr = dir; *ptr; ++ptr)
               if ('\\' == *ptr)
                 *ptr = '/';
             final_str = dir;
+	  		final_str.append("/Aspell");
           }
           CoTaskMemFree(items);
         }
         delete [] dir;
+		}
 
       }
 #endif
@@ -1394,20 +1409,6 @@
     return no_err;
   }
 
-#if defined(WIN32_USE_PERSONAL_DIR)
-#  define HOME_DIR "!home-dir"
-#  define PERSONAL "<lang>.pws"
-#  define REPL     "<lang>.prepl"
-#elif defined(ENABLE_WIN32_RELOCATABLE)
-#  define HOME_DIR "<prefix>"
-#  define PERSONAL "<lang>.pws"
-#  define REPL     "<lang>.prepl"
-#else
-#  define HOME_DIR "<$HOME|./>"
-#  define PERSONAL ".aspell.<lang>.pws"
-#  define REPL     ".aspell.<lang>.prepl"
-#endif
-
   static const KeyInfo config_keys[] = {
     // the description should be under 50 chars
     {"actual-dict-dir", KeyInfoString, "<dict-dir^master>", 0}
@@ -1484,7 +1485,7 @@
     , {"per-conf-path", KeyInfoString, "<home-dir/per-conf>", 0}
     , {"personal", KeyInfoString, PERSONAL,
        N_("personal dictionary file name")}
-    , {"personal-path", KeyInfoString, "<home-dir/personal>", 0}
+    , {"personal-path", KeyInfoString, PERSONAL_DIR, 0}
     , {"prefix",   KeyInfoString, PREFIX,
        N_("prefix directory")}
     , {"repl",     KeyInfoString, REPL,
@@ -1525,10 +1526,12 @@
     , {"warn", KeyInfoBool, "true",
        N_("enable warnings")}
 #ifdef WIN32PORT
-    , {"dict-subdir", KeyInfoString, "dicts",
+    , {"dict-subdir", KeyInfoString, "Dictionaries",
        N_("sub directory for dictionaries")}
     , {"data-subdir", KeyInfoString, "data",
        N_("sub directory for other data")}
+    , {"personal-subdir", KeyInfoString, "Personal",
+       N_("sub directory for personal data")}
 #endif
     
     //
@@ -1587,5 +1590,53 @@
                       config_impl_keys_begin,
                       config_impl_keys_end);
   }
+
+#ifdef WIN32PORT
+
+  String ReadRegString(HKEY hive, String key, String name)
+  {
+  
+    // Reads a string from the Windows registry (used to get paths)  
+	
+    HKEY hKey;
+    unsigned long lType;
+    DWORD dwSize;
+    unsigned char* szValue = NULL;
+	
+    if (::RegOpenKeyEx(hive, key.c_str(), 0, KEY_READ, &hKey) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
+    {
+      if(::RegQueryValueEx(hKey, name.c_str(), NULL, &lType, NULL, &dwSize) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
+      {
+        szValue = new unsigned char[dwSize + 1];
+        ::RegQueryValueEx(hKey, name.c_str(), NULL, &lType, szValue, &dwSize);
+        String RegistryReturn((char*)szValue);
+        delete[] szValue;
+        return RegistryReturn;
+	  } else {
+	    return "";
+      }
+    } else {
+	  return "";
+	}
+  
+  }
+  
+  HKEY GetRegHive()
+  {
+    
+    // Check whether Aspell is installed for the current user or for all users
+	
+    String value;
+	
+    if (ReadRegString(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\Aspell", "Dictionary Path") == "")
+    {
+      return HKEY_CURRENT_USER;
+    } else {
+      return HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
+    }
+	
+  }
+
+#endif
   
 }
diff -riwbBu -Xex aspell-setter-sep06/common/vector.hpp aspell-setter-sep06-modified/common/vector.hpp
--- aspell-setter-sep06/common/vector.hpp	Thu Oct 13 09:42:54 2005
+++ aspell-setter-sep06-modified/common/vector.hpp	Sun Sep 17 19:50:46 2006
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
     T * data_end() {return &*this->end();}
 
     T * pbegin() {return &*this->begin();}
-    T * pend()   {return &*this->end();}
+    T * pend()   {return &this->back()+1;}
 
     const T * pbegin() const {return &*this->begin();}
-    const T * pend()   const {return &*this->end();}
+    const T * pend()   const {return &this->back()+1;}
 
     template <typename U>
     U * datap() { 
diff -riwbBu -Xex aspell-setter-sep06/win32/dirs.h aspell-setter-sep06-modified/win32/dirs.h
--- aspell-setter-sep06/win32/dirs.h	Thu Oct 13 13:29:34 2005
+++ aspell-setter-sep06-modified/win32/dirs.h	Sun Sep 17 20:26:26 2006
@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 #ifndef dirs_h
 #define dirs_h
 
-#ifdef WIN32_USE_EXECUTABLE_DIR
-# define DATA_DIR "<prefix/data-subdir>"
-# define CONF_DIR "<prefix>"
-# define DICT_DIR "<prefix/dict-subdir>"
+# define DATA_DIR "<home-dir/data-subdir>"
+# define CONF_DIR "<home-dir>"
+# define DICT_DIR "<home-dir/dict-subdir>"
+# define PERSONAL_DIR "<home-dir/personal>"
+
+#if defined(WIN32_USE_EXECUTABLE_DIR)
+# define HOME_DIR "<prefix>"
+# define PERSONAL "<personal-subdir>/<lang>.pws"
+# define REPL     "<personal-subdir>/<lang>.prepl"
 # define PREFIX "!prefix"
+#elif defined(WIN32_USE_PERSONAL_DIR)
+# define HOME_DIR "!home-dir"
+# define PERSONAL "<personal-subdir>/<lang>.pws"
+# define REPL     "<personal-subdir>/<lang>.prepl"
+# define PREFIX "<home-dir>"
 #else
-# define DATA_DIR "aspell-win32/data"
-# define CONF_DIR "aspell-win32"
-# define DICT_DIR "dicts"
-# define PREFIX "aspell-win32"
+# define HOME_DIR "<$HOME|./>"
+# define PERSONAL "<personal-subdir>/.aspell.<lang>.pws"
+# define REPL     "<personal-subdir>/.aspell.<lang>.prepl"
+# define PREFIX "<home-dir>"
 #endif
 
 #endif
diff -riwbBu -Xex aspell-setter-sep06/win32/settings.h aspell-setter-sep06-modified/win32/settings.h
--- aspell-setter-sep06/win32/settings.h	Wed Sep  6 10:51:16 2006
+++ aspell-setter-sep06-modified/win32/settings.h	Sun Sep 17 18:55:23 2006
@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
 /* Defined if curses like POSIX Functions should be used */
 #undef CURSES_ONLY
 
-/* Defined if win32 relocation should be used */
-#define ENABLE_WIN32_RELOCATABLE 1
-
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <dlfcn.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_DLFCN_H