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Ian Hoare
Salut/Hi steve eddy,
le/on Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:55:21 -0800, tu disais/you said:-
If you're downloading, then you should save it before installing, as
everyone else has said. My suggestion is a general one. Make a folder on
(your C drive or another( one of your hard disks called downloads. I have it
on a drive which I only back up once a month or so. Then you always save
your files there. That way you always know where your installation files are
to be found, and if and when you download updated programs you can easily
find the older version of the install file to delete.
In the bad/good old days when we still talked about "directories" and
"subdirectories" instead of folders, we were encouraged to create some kind
of intelligent hard disk structure, so you knew what was where and what to
back up. Although Win XP can keep tracks of things better, it is still worth
while, I'd suggest, to have some idea of what's where.
When I first set up my directory structure, one of the first things I did
was to create a folder called My Programs (before Windows could do it for
me). I put it on a fast large drive apart from Windows itself, so that
(again) if things went catastrophically wrong, I stood a better chance of
not losing applications if I had to reinstall windows. Some ill behaved
programs don't give me the chance of saying where I want to install them,
installing themselves into C:\My Programs\companyname\applicationname. If I
do get the opportunity to change I alter the C:\ to E:\ and that's it. But
that means I know where my applications are, even if Windows has a silly
minute and loses them.
Assuming you're using Internet Explorer, it usually remembers the last
folder you downloaded into, so just create (using Windows Explorer) your
chosen folder, and tell IE where to put the file. Once you've done that,
you're home and dry, because to install the program, you can either navigate
there in Explorer and click on the filename, or using "Start/Run" run it.
A decent application would let your create filters to determine in advance
where to put downloaded files depending upon their suffixes. Thus in
Terminate (an early 90s Dos based comms program), you could set it up in
advance to download *.jpg into C:\mydocs\mypics, *.txt into c;\mydocs *.exe
into c:\download\apps and *.zip into c:\download\zips and everything else
into c:\download\random.
Of course, with windows based programs we've regressed a long way and such
functionality is no longer usual. A shame.
le/on Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:55:21 -0800, tu disais/you said:-
If you're downloading, then you should save it before installing, as
everyone else has said. My suggestion is a general one. Make a folder on
(your C drive or another( one of your hard disks called downloads. I have it
on a drive which I only back up once a month or so. Then you always save
your files there. That way you always know where your installation files are
to be found, and if and when you download updated programs you can easily
find the older version of the install file to delete.
In the bad/good old days when we still talked about "directories" and
"subdirectories" instead of folders, we were encouraged to create some kind
of intelligent hard disk structure, so you knew what was where and what to
back up. Although Win XP can keep tracks of things better, it is still worth
while, I'd suggest, to have some idea of what's where.
When I first set up my directory structure, one of the first things I did
was to create a folder called My Programs (before Windows could do it for
me). I put it on a fast large drive apart from Windows itself, so that
(again) if things went catastrophically wrong, I stood a better chance of
not losing applications if I had to reinstall windows. Some ill behaved
programs don't give me the chance of saying where I want to install them,
installing themselves into C:\My Programs\companyname\applicationname. If I
do get the opportunity to change I alter the C:\ to E:\ and that's it. But
that means I know where my applications are, even if Windows has a silly
minute and loses them.
Assuming you're using Internet Explorer, it usually remembers the last
folder you downloaded into, so just create (using Windows Explorer) your
chosen folder, and tell IE where to put the file. Once you've done that,
you're home and dry, because to install the program, you can either navigate
there in Explorer and click on the filename, or using "Start/Run" run it.
A decent application would let your create filters to determine in advance
where to put downloaded files depending upon their suffixes. Thus in
Terminate (an early 90s Dos based comms program), you could set it up in
advance to download *.jpg into C:\mydocs\mypics, *.txt into c;\mydocs *.exe
into c:\download\apps and *.zip into c:\download\zips and everything else
into c:\download\random.
Of course, with windows based programs we've regressed a long way and such
functionality is no longer usual. A shame.