multiple users on multiple partitions in x

thats quite an unessisarly complicated post there. to make programs default to a different location that default installed one you have to do it per user. you can do it as one user and copy that profile to the default user profile but your only talking about 3 users, thats nothing. as far as making the partitions, just install windows to the drive, tell it to make the first partition whatever size you dicided on then after it installs make the other partition from windows disk manager. and if your planning on putting the swap file on another partition to get a performance increase, you are wasting your time. wherever you heard that was good you heard wrong, you need to put it on a separate drive for performance increase. the performance gain is negligible anyway.

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i am not putting the swap file on a separate partition for perfromane sake per se, but simply so that it remains contingous, to reduce fragmentation in general. i understand running diskeeper regulalry would do the same but i havent come across anyone suggesting any harm in doing this....unless you can enlighten me

You move your destop by opening the enclosing folder and moving (not copying) it to where you want it. I usually put it in D:\My Documents\Email

To move My Documents you open its properties and click move.

To change the outlook express email store folder you go to tools, options, maintenance, store folder.

As far as where programs save files by default, it ususaully is either the last place you saved something with that program or my documents.

Not a lot of work really. And when you restore your PC and instantly have all your email, desktop and my documents exactly the way they were before the restore without having to do any work is great.

I just wish I new how to move the location of my address book and favorites folder.

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Oh and I always keep my pagefile on a separate hard drive. If that drive is not available for some reason XP just creates an new page file on C: no problem. (well except for having to move it again).

I do this mainly so that my backups and restores are about 30 seconds faster.

sorry to revisit this but...
i can get "my docs" to move okay for each user but i am struggling to do it for the desktops - whenever i reboot i find new copies of the desktop back at cocs&settings and XP seems to only look at this version and not the onei have moved.

could you please give me a step-by-step guide hwo to move the desktop [for users wig and wam who do i need to be looged in as to do what].

thanks in advance - this is really frustrating!