Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 08:06:04 12/08/00
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Although this is totally off topic, it could help you organize your files. Forgive me if you already did so, in that case it *doesn't* help you anymore":)) Always use different partitions on you HD, and save one for all your data files. I't comes in very handy at backing up: just drag the whole "partition" to a CDR or so. Besides that, you never have to search for additional data spread throughout your hard disk. Do the same with your e-mails. You can change the folder location if you use Outlook Express (under options) put it on that partition also. Remember if you use the My documents folder, you can change the location of that as well by right clicking on the icon and changing the path. Also change the temporary internet files settings to store them on that data partition. (internet options in the configuration screen) Now if you use explorer let it point to a directory or folder you always use -or use the most, so it opens directly while opening the explorer, you not having to browse through that slowly unfolding tree. If you right click on the "my documents" folder you'll see something like this: C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\ Change that in for example: C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,D:\My documents\current or so if D:\My documents\current is the directory you open most. Partitioning without losing your data is possible with the program Partition Magic. But if you're out for a clean installation (not bad after some time of Windows OS wear) make a 1Gb partition for Windows OS (C), a partition for your programs (D) and a partition for your data (E). If something goes wrong with windows just totally wipe the C partition and reinstall Windows. Some (not all) programs do a quicker install with the old files still on the HD. >Anyway... It's >necessary to have an auxiliary memory system of some kind as I approach 61 years >young!? Just can't remember things like I used to... At 40 I could be jealous. Jeroen ;-}
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