Re: Creating Partition for virtual memory

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From: francis gérard (spam_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:42:42 -0400

"Lemon Jelly" <hhh@aaa.com> wrote in message
news:evS%23OIxgEHA.3320@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
> Thanks for the clarification Francis. As an aside, my quest to move
> anything that could be moved off the OS volume got a little less obsessive
> when I realised that moving the entire Documents & Settings folder was
> peppered with problems to do after, rather than when installing XP & when
> I realised that separating the OS & parts of the registry hive wasn't such
> a bright idea, I lost even more interest in doing so.

if you wanna get fancy, you can create symbolic links (ntfs only) pointing
to the new target where you want to move stuff to, copy everything verbatim
to the target location (new drive or folder), then empty the contents of the
original directory and create a symbolic hardlink from the original source
to the target. i've done it to move the Program Files directory from one
location to another, it works, but i don't recommend this procedure for the
faint of heart. ;-}

for a brief description of ntfs symbolic links and a tool for creating them,
go here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction

microsoft also provides a tool called LINKD which can be used for creating
symbolic links, but it's only available with the resource kit cds, which i
also have.

> Regarding where Windows keeps settings, it took me quite a while to figure
> out that IE6's history was partly stored in the registry (date info) & the
> URLs in a user folder. As long as XP is bootable, I can run a batch file
> to later restore even that - Drive Image was worth every penny!

yes indeed, too bad drive imaging isn't built right into System Restore, eh?
that would be fabulous!

> --
> Paul
> (Who is a happy bunny again, having sorted OE-Quotefix to work with SP2!)

oh really, please tell me more... 

--
francis

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