Re: Can OE run with ProgramFilesDir set to something other than the OS drive?

From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_tenretnitb.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:19:44 -0000

Forgot to mention in my earlier message. On both partitions where the
Windows operating systems reside you could win significant free space by
selecting the System Restore option in Start, Disk CleanUp, More
Options. This suggestion would not apply if the operating system is
Windows 98 because it does not have System Restore. 

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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Colonel Blip" <colonel.blip@removethespambigfoot.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello, Gerry!
> You wrote  on Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:52:06 -0000:
>
> GC> What are you trying to achieve? Is it more free space in your D 
> drive /
> GC> partition?
>
> 2 things - Limited space on D drive partition and desire to have my 
> programs
> all be on a single but different partition so I can do Ghost image 
> backups
> on each as desired without having oversized image files.
>
> GC> What type of drive is your Y drive? Is it a hard drive or some 
> other
> GC> type of drive? Is your computer dual booting? Details? Is your 
> hard
> GC> drive partititioned?
>
> System has 2 identical drives, partitioned into 7 partitions each. 
> Dual boot
> w2k/xp pro; one drive has one OS and its programs; other has its OS 
> and
> programs; each have sufficient space to image backup OS and programs 
> if
> desired from the other drive.
>
> GC> You can move programs from one drive to another but not in the 
> ways you
> GC> are thinking. Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are integrated 
> into
> GC> the operating and are not to be separated from the operating 
> system.
> GC> However, you can relocate the Temporary Internet Folder and the 
> Outlook
> GC> Express store folder, which are components.
>
> Maybe so on the integration but seems to be change for XP since I've 
> had no
> problem specifying a different ProgramFilesDir on the w2k and not had 
> the OE
> problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Colonel Blip.
> E-mail: colonel.blip@removethespambigfoot.com
>
>

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