Thread: XP is getting to excruciatingly slow !!
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Old October 21st 09, 09:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.os.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,24hoursupport.helpdesk,microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Default XP is getting to excruciatingly slow !!
"BillW50" wrote:

And you really don't need to separate the docs from the system
partition. As most backup programs can backup folders as well as
partitions. So you can if you want too, make a backup of the system and
the data inn two separate backups from the same partition if you want.

I have always stored everything off the OS partitions, I can lose an
OS, reinstall, and lose very little. It's a Dos thing that carried
over to an OS that scatters your data everywhere.

In fact I would rather run a stand alone program (process explorer,
VLC) one's that only needs the dir it's located in to run.

I have those on a separate partition, reinstalling the OS is much
easier as I just link to those from the Misgprgs directory.

I've never made a back up of my OS's, just a waste of CD's. I do
backup my Data which is on other partitions. Then catalog the CD's
with Whereisit.

I have Agent (my newsreader) on a separate partition, the directory
has been with me thru at least 7 different computers, and every OS
(not ME) since Win95 (I started with Agent .98). I've never lost so
much as a message, I still have a collection of info collected from
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc. group.

I just move the Agent directory, to the next computer or link it to
the newly installed OS, and edit the .ini file. On a dual boot system
I can start a post on one OS, reboot and finish it from the other.

I also don't use Tweak UI, that was posted for folks who do save to
the "my stuff dirs". I do use it for other tweaks.

BTW, I recently reinstalled two versions of XP pro, on purpose - they
had been running for a bit over 4.5 years, I can pull out of a serious
error (dual booting helps a lot) - it's not like I format due to a
fatal error, or on a whim.

At this moment if I were to lose the HD, I would only lose my recent
torrent files.

And you really don't need to separate the docs from the system
partition.

I do.



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