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John
I double click the c drive under My Computer. The left pane (whatever
that is) starts with a thing called "Desktop." What is that? The first
thing under Desktop is my user folder, I think.But my user file is also
under c:\users and neither one is a shortcut. It turns out that if I
delete one of them I delete both of them. How does that work?
What kind of "folder" is Desktop such that it can point to a file (or
whatever it does) and pretend (or something) the file is really there to
the extent that a delete in one deletes the other? Or maybe the
questions is, what kind of files are the user files? Maybe it's similar
to the search thingy that has that delete the search-delete the file
attribute.
I didn't notice till updating to 64 bit. I don't use desktop at all. I
have my own way of displaying data and programs using Objectdoct. If I
could, I'd disable and/or delete windows desktop entirely. I gather when
I use Objectdock it disables windows desktop.
I want my small 64 bit drive to point to the user file on the vista 32
bit drive co-installed. I learned how to do it sort of but it looks
exactly as if there are TWO of everything on the 64 bit drive; two user
files, two document files, two picture files etc... all the same. So
which do I change to point to the 32 bit drive. Or maybe both? It's
really confusing.
Eventually the 32 bit drive will become just a data drive but I want it
functional, bootable, while I slowly install everything on the 64 bit
drive. Have to do that since Microsoft never figured out how to upgrade
the 32 bit to 64 bit.
Anyway. I somehow got my entire 32 bit user file onto the 64 bit under
Desktop, sort of. It looked like Desktop/userfile/userfile with the
second userfile under the first and holding the data on the 32 bit
drive. Nice, bu confusing. Then I also got the documents folder under
64 bit users,myfile documents to point to documents under the 32 bit
users. So, I decided that would be a neater way to go so I just deleted
the 32 bit user file under 64 bit Desktop cause it wouldn't be needed.
Well... you guessed it, it not only deleted it from the 64 bit Desktop,
it also deleted it from the 32 bit user file on the other drive. Have no
idea how it was connected like that. it seemed to have volume and take
space on the 64 bit drive and certainly didn't show up as a shortcut
under properties.
Luckily, having dinged around with Microsoft stuff a long time I had the
foresight to have a second cloned disk of the 32 bit drive so I could go
back and get ALL my stuff that Microsoft deleted from two drives at
once. I just had this hunch that anything connected to something run by
Microsoft could get screwed up.
So, again... what kind of "thing" is the thing called "Desktop" that
appears first under the drive letter when you click on the drive letter
in explorer?
John
that is) starts with a thing called "Desktop." What is that? The first
thing under Desktop is my user folder, I think.But my user file is also
under c:\users and neither one is a shortcut. It turns out that if I
delete one of them I delete both of them. How does that work?
What kind of "folder" is Desktop such that it can point to a file (or
whatever it does) and pretend (or something) the file is really there to
the extent that a delete in one deletes the other? Or maybe the
questions is, what kind of files are the user files? Maybe it's similar
to the search thingy that has that delete the search-delete the file
attribute.
I didn't notice till updating to 64 bit. I don't use desktop at all. I
have my own way of displaying data and programs using Objectdoct. If I
could, I'd disable and/or delete windows desktop entirely. I gather when
I use Objectdock it disables windows desktop.
I want my small 64 bit drive to point to the user file on the vista 32
bit drive co-installed. I learned how to do it sort of but it looks
exactly as if there are TWO of everything on the 64 bit drive; two user
files, two document files, two picture files etc... all the same. So
which do I change to point to the 32 bit drive. Or maybe both? It's
really confusing.
Eventually the 32 bit drive will become just a data drive but I want it
functional, bootable, while I slowly install everything on the 64 bit
drive. Have to do that since Microsoft never figured out how to upgrade
the 32 bit to 64 bit.
Anyway. I somehow got my entire 32 bit user file onto the 64 bit under
Desktop, sort of. It looked like Desktop/userfile/userfile with the
second userfile under the first and holding the data on the 32 bit
drive. Nice, bu confusing. Then I also got the documents folder under
64 bit users,myfile documents to point to documents under the 32 bit
users. So, I decided that would be a neater way to go so I just deleted
the 32 bit user file under 64 bit Desktop cause it wouldn't be needed.
Well... you guessed it, it not only deleted it from the 64 bit Desktop,
it also deleted it from the 32 bit user file on the other drive. Have no
idea how it was connected like that. it seemed to have volume and take
space on the 64 bit drive and certainly didn't show up as a shortcut
under properties.
Luckily, having dinged around with Microsoft stuff a long time I had the
foresight to have a second cloned disk of the 32 bit drive so I could go
back and get ALL my stuff that Microsoft deleted from two drives at
once. I just had this hunch that anything connected to something run by
Microsoft could get screwed up.
So, again... what kind of "thing" is the thing called "Desktop" that
appears first under the drive letter when you click on the drive letter
in explorer?
John