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Old June 25th 18, 05:11 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Arlen Holder
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Default What else do you do when setting up a new Win10 desktop from scratch?

On 24 Jun 2018 20:56:52 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Microsoft implies that SR doesn't touch user data. They lie. They *do*
touch parts of user data and will - for example - have no quibble in
fscking a database, because they think they know what (not) to restore.
BTDT got the T-shirt. More on this below.


Your advice, Frank Slootweg, is good advice, and born of experience.
I agree with you.

To partially protect myself from that, and for other more direct reasons,
I never store anything in "default" folders (simply because they get
polluted beyond belief), so while Microsoft *can* find my files, none are
going to be in the standard places.

All the files I care about are in:
C:\tmp (stuff I'm working on now)
C:\data (all my data files)
C:\apps (the installation hierarchy)
C:\software (the archive of installers)

That's pretty much it.

Even the menus are usually just soft links with the actual hard files kept
in C:\data and only links kept elsewhere ... but I haven't re-set that up
on Windows 10 yet as I'm rebuilding a system.
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