Re: huh?

Rainy wrote:

Ok thanks..I'm learning! Next time I won't do this.. or make an
image so I can save the programs.. Rainy


You're welcome. Glad to help. If you image and restore the entire drive,
then you can save the programs, but that's the only way.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rainy wrote:

no rainy did not :) lol why don't you like the idea?.. there are pros
and cons for partitioning.. I like having my operating system on one
partition with my programs on the other...... if windows crashes..
the programs are still there on the other partition, when you
reinstall the OS, at least that is what I have heard.. right?


Sorry, you've heard wrong. The programs may be there, but they are
useless and can not be run if you reinstall Windows.

Installed programs (except for an occasional trivial one) have many
components and entries referring to them throughout Windows (in the
registry and elsewhere). If you reinstall Windows, all of that is
lost and the programs need to be reinstalled anyway. For that reason,
there is generally no advantage to separating programs from the
partition Windows is installed on.


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