diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/PackageManager.tcross b/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/PackageManager.tcross
index 4089da1..d6512a2 100644
--- a/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/PackageManager.tcross
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.BuildEssentials/src/PackageManager.tcross
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ func Tesses.CrossLang.PackageManager()
             };
         }
     }
-    var configRoot = Path.FromString(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang";
+    var configRoot = Env.CrossLangConfig;
     var packageCache = configRoot / "PackageCache";
     FS.Local.CreateDirectory(packageCache);
     func FileReadByteArray(fs,path)
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ func Tesses.CrossLang.PackageManager()
             {
                 //user has declared they are offline or don't have packageServers look through packages locally
                 var version = new Version(0,0,0,0,"dev");
-                var configRoot = Path.FromString(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang";
+                var configRoot = Env.CrossLangConfig;
                 var dir = configRoot / "PackageCache" / name;
                 if(FS.Local.DirectoryExists(dir))
                 each(var f : FS.Local.EnumeratePaths(dir))
diff --git a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
index c64964f..cf33f4e 100644
--- a/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
+++ b/Tesses.CrossLang.Shell/src/main.tcross
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ func main(args)
                 Console.WriteLine("template_name: The name of the template");
                 Console.WriteLine("directory_for_project: The directory for the project, defaults to current directory");
             }
-            var dir = FS.MakeFull(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang" / "Templates";
+            var dir = Env.CrossLangConfig / "Templates";
 
             each(var flag : dd.Flags)
             {
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func main(args)
         else if(commandName == "install-tool")
         {
             //crosslang install-tool Tesses.CrossLang.Tool.SomeTool --version=1.0.0.0-prod
-            var toolsDir = Path.FromString(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang" / "Tools";
+            var toolsDir = Env.CrossLangConfig / "Tools";
             
             var offline=false;
             var buildPath = ".";
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ func main(args)
         else if(commandName == "tool")
         {
 
-            var dir = FS.MakeFull(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang" / "Tools";
+            var dir = Env.CrossLangConfig / "Tools";
             if(dd.Arguments.Length == 1)
             {
                 Console.WriteLine("List of tools:");
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ func main(args)
         }
         else if(commandName == "configdir")
         {
-            Console.WriteLine(FS.MakeFull(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang");
+            Console.WriteLine(Env.CrossLangConfig);
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/crosslang_shell_archive_maker/src/main.tcross b/crosslang_shell_archive_maker/src/main.tcross
index 74f6366..793f07f 100644
--- a/crosslang_shell_archive_maker/src/main.tcross
+++ b/crosslang_shell_archive_maker/src/main.tcross
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ func main(args)
 
 func install()
 {
-    var d = FS.MakeFull(Env.Config) / "Tesses" / "CrossLang";
+    var d = Env.CrossLangConfig;
     FS.Local.CreateDirectory(d);
     var sdfs = FS.SubdirFilesystem(FS.Local, d);
     var strm = FS.Local.OpenFile(name,"rb");