Re: Preferred Location for "Program Files" Folder?
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Date: 02/04/04
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:40:18 -0000
lots of sources promote putting just the core XP stuff on drive C: (or
whatever your system drive is), and putting your docs and other programs
on a seperate partition(s). The logic behind this is that you can then
make images of these drives (using ghost or drive-image), and they'll be
smaller and easier to manage.
This is true, to a certain extent.
But, your registry will always be on the system drive, and all your
programs keep their settings in the registry. if you need to restore the
system drive, you will most likely have to reinstall the programs again,
even tho they're already on the other HD. So, splitting out the programs
may not buy you very much.
However, having a seperate partition for your larger data files is a good
idea. Keep your mp3 and videos/images on a seperate drive, use TweakUI to
change to location of your My Documents f(and other) folders, and set your
browser and any download app to keep their temps (ie, the cache) on a
seperate drive. Put your swap file on a sep drive too. Then the system
drive won't change very much daya-to-day, and it'll be fairly easy to
restore from an image if necessary.
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