Re: DL Program Questions....

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:17:39 -0700

Marty,

I do not use System Restore and do not know much about it.

How do you save other data that you don't want to lose from a SR or a clean
install?

My downloads are here...
C:\Documents and Settings\Wesley P. Vogel\My Documents\My Download Files

I backup C:\Documents and Settings\Wesley P. Vogel\My Documents to CD once
in a while. This, of course includes My Download Files.

It isn't a good idea to have your Security & Setup folders on the Desktop.
Put them in My Documents.

Not sure that I understand completely.

For example, I have Spybot - Search & Destroy Setup (spybotsd13.exe) in
C:\Documents and Settings\Wesley P. Vogel\My Documents\My Download
Files\Spybot S&D.

After Spybot S & D is installed it actually lives here >>
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy

The Start Menu location is here >>
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Spybot - Search &
Destroy 

-- 
Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:21090-4206C20A-111@storefull-3112.bay.webtv.net,
martymkm@webtv.net <martymkm@webtv.net> hunted and pecked:
> But if I do a SR I would lose things dled after the restore point, or
> if I had to go back to factory conditions I would lose everything.
> What I am wondering about is having re-installing everything with the
> least amount of time and dare I say it?, work. What I'd like to do is
> save some of my programs to disk and if I need it just pop the disk
> in and dl from it. Am I clear as mud? LOL Or say a friend would call
> and say I need Spybot (as an example only) could you dl it to disk
> and bring it over, or say if I had two pc's and only wanted to dl it
> from the internet once, but wanted it on both machines how would or
> could I save it to disk?
> I have created a folder I named Security I put AdAware, Spybot, and
> the like on my C drive. I haven't dled anything else, no music,
> pictures, games, etc. into it just protection/preventative programs
> for my pc. Is this OK?
> What I have also done is created on my desktop a folder called Setup
> that holds all of the initial files to install the above mentioned
> programs. Is this OK too?
> Sorry for playing 1000 questions....
>
> Take Care; Marty

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