Configuring default folder locations

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A. Cowan

Hey, I've just reinstalled my XP Prof SP1 onto a clean 160GB that has been
partitioned. My plan was to install the XP files in a 15Gb partition, then
configure it so that the user Documents & Settings folder had their own 40Gb
partition, and the Program Files folder also had its own 40Gb partition. I
see there is already a Program Files folder on the C: drive, and its also
already created the Documents & Settings folder on C:, how do I change the
default drive/folder locations and move the folders to the right drive?

Also, I have Office XP to install, I deleted the user accounts as they were
empty anyway, would it be best to install Office before setting up the user
accounts?

Sorry for all the cross-postings but I don't know which group matches the
question best.
Thanks!
Alistair
 
Greetings,

This is possible, however you can and probably might mess up the system. In
my opinion just put your "My Documents" and IMPT documents in a separate
partition :) Most people do that these days. I rarely see people have a
partition just for their Program Files.

Thanks and best of luck!
 
"Jose Francisco" <[email protected]> squirted these wordjisms deep inside
the bumtube of the newstwat in
Greetings,

This is possible, however you can and probably might mess up the
system. In my opinion just put your "My Documents" and IMPT documents
in a separate partition :) Most people do that these days. I rarely
see people have a partition just for their Program Files.

Thanks and best of luck!
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In my opinion, there's no real value in installing program files to a
separate partition, because most of them write stuff into the system
folder, and the registry, on your C drive.

So if you have to reinstall your OS, you would also then have to reinstall
your programs, thus negating any benefit of keeping them separate.

The only other benefit I could see would be not having them in the default
C:\Program Files location, in case malware tried to alter them or
something. The chances of malware looking for something in a very specific
place like that are quite small I would think, and if your system is secure
enough this should not be an issue.

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