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| From | "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.laptops |
| Subject | Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? |
| Date | 2011-08-16 13:49 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <j2ee42$k23$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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In news:9avrqdF8o7U1@mid.individual.net,
Roger Mills wrote:
> On 16/08/2011 04:47, ghelf wrote:
>>
>>> No problem whatsoever. I've done it with Windows 95/98, XP and 7.
>>>
>>> Most decent applications - certainly if you do a custom install
>>> rather than accepting all the defaults - allow you to specify where
>>> to install them. So you partition your disk and create (say) an E:
>>> drive and then create a 'Program Files' folder on that drive. Then,
>>> when you install an application, you specify the location as
>>> E:\Program Files.
>> Just curious why did you decide to keep the programs on a separate
>> partition?
>
> It seemed like a good idea at the time - to separate the data from the
> programs from the OS. It meant that the programs could be backed up
> 'live' by copying to an external device - reducing the amount of the
> stuff on the system drive to be backed up as a Ghost image with the
> system shut down. But, as per my previous post, you still end up with
> a lot of application-related stuff on the system drive, so the
> advantages are not all that great.
I too used to think the exact same way at one time. But storage is so
cheap nowadays and it just doesn't matter anymore.
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3
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Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 14:24 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-15 22:55 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "~misfit~" <sore_n_happy@nospamyahoo.com.au> - 2011-08-16 12:16 +1200
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:35 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:47 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 19:40 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 13:49 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Tazz <dmswaine@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 16:22 -0300
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 15:33 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "RnR" <rnrtexas@gmail.com> - 2011-08-21 06:57 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 16:21 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-15 20:11 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-15 23:21 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-16 13:39 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:30 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-16 16:35 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 22:55 +0100
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:40 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "ghelf" <ghelf@sbcglobalDeathToSpam.net> - 2011-08-18 19:17 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:05 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <1245nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-16 16:47 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-18 06:04 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-18 17:23 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-19 18:34 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? AJL <2579843445nomail@none.com> - 2011-08-19 21:26 -0700
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2011-08-20 11:03 -0500
Re: Anybody have any success installing software applications to a separate partition? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2011-08-16 02:04 +0000
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