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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (4362)	12/19/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

I guess PM Bundle (not electronic, thanks Sean) and Netscape will be my first. Will IE be included with NT? I hope so..how else will I be able to dnld Netscape? Agreed..the PM bundle first. You want to have a Drive Image before you start loading software and playing with configurations. I do not know if IE is included in NT...I will guess it is. My rough thinking was to have NT, browser and later Real Tick in the first partition (first drive) and other more secondary apps (Quicken, TA, EXcel, WP)in the #2 partition. With this plan my first clones should be straight forward and your concern would be addressed when I started to load into parttition #2. How does this sound to you? The other option being having only NT in the #1 and all apps in #2. My intuition tells me to keep browser and Real Tick together... it also tells me to keep NT with them.. hence my plan to put them all three into #1/1 (first drive/first parition). My preference is to keep everything on one partition and add a second partition if there is a good reason. I do not think you can isolate applications by putting them on the second partition. The NT partition will be altered during the installation of the applications..registry? entries and whatever it is that NT decides it would like to keep on the C drive..close to its heart.<g> I would make the early installations to the C drive and watch the size. PM, browsers, utilities and Real Tick all sound like good candidates for the first partition. I would also consider Excel, WP, and Quicken good candidates for the first partition. These programs do not take up that much space and can be considered useful tools. I would want them part of a restore package. TA (Technical Analysis?) may be a good secondary candidate. If it involves maintaining a large data base of stock data it could grow your C drive too quickly. Graphics programs (Photoshop) would fall in the same category. When I install software I usually do not take the default directory. I prefer to put Excel in a directory (folder) named excel, Quicken in a directory named quicken etc. I find the proposed options by some of the software oems to be too long and nested. Microsoft seems to want to write a sentence just to use as a folder name. It makes it difficult to find things on the drive. If the directory names are kept short and meaningful they are easy to remember and find. Zeuspaul