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Don J
Usually, doing an "Upgrade" insatallation is quick and easy (a few minutes
to do all the things necessary after Windows installs) and is the way to go.
If "Upgrade" doesn't do it, it is necessary to do a "Full Installation".
This can be disasterous because of all the work it destroys. I've got the
process of doing a "Full Installation" and recovering lost information down
to less than three hours.
The secret to rapid "Full Installation" is to install things like edited
documents and source documents on a different partition than the location of
the windows installation. If Windows is installed on drive C:, then you
should store all documents that should not be trashed during a "Full
Installation" on Drive D:.
Examples of information that should be stored on drive D:
1) All human operator generated source documents.
2) The holding directory for the email programs. In Outlook
Express this directory may be relocated by going to
"Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store Folder".
3) The "Favorites" list. To change this go to
"My Computer>Special Folders" in TweakUI.
4) Data files, for all programs that change their data files as
you work. For example, on installation both Quicken and
Turbotax place their data files in the Windows directory
and therefore in the Windows partition. Both can be
changed from the Files menu.
In addition to this, I have stored copies of all of my application source
CDs in separate subdirectories on drive E:. To reinstall my application
programs I therefore go to Drive E: and separately install each and every
one. This can take several hours. To speed things up I don't wait for the
current installation to complete before starting the next. I generally have
two or three installations going on simultaneously.
I generally do all installations in parallel with downloading upgrades for
Windows. For this purpose click the "Window Update" icon at the top of the
start menu. And when the system finishes one download or installation
before the others, remember to wait before clicking to restart the machine.
to do all the things necessary after Windows installs) and is the way to go.
If "Upgrade" doesn't do it, it is necessary to do a "Full Installation".
This can be disasterous because of all the work it destroys. I've got the
process of doing a "Full Installation" and recovering lost information down
to less than three hours.
The secret to rapid "Full Installation" is to install things like edited
documents and source documents on a different partition than the location of
the windows installation. If Windows is installed on drive C:, then you
should store all documents that should not be trashed during a "Full
Installation" on Drive D:.
Examples of information that should be stored on drive D:
1) All human operator generated source documents.
2) The holding directory for the email programs. In Outlook
Express this directory may be relocated by going to
"Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store Folder".
3) The "Favorites" list. To change this go to
"My Computer>Special Folders" in TweakUI.
4) Data files, for all programs that change their data files as
you work. For example, on installation both Quicken and
Turbotax place their data files in the Windows directory
and therefore in the Windows partition. Both can be
changed from the Files menu.
In addition to this, I have stored copies of all of my application source
CDs in separate subdirectories on drive E:. To reinstall my application
programs I therefore go to Drive E: and separately install each and every
one. This can take several hours. To speed things up I don't wait for the
current installation to complete before starting the next. I generally have
two or three installations going on simultaneously.
I generally do all installations in parallel with downloading upgrades for
Windows. For this purpose click the "Window Update" icon at the top of the
start menu. And when the system finishes one download or installation
before the others, remember to wait before clicking to restart the machine.