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Hi,
I come from planet Macintosh. For reasons I won't go into, I now have
this Windows XP laptop. It's kinda different. I think it's mostly the
new look and feel of XP.
The laptop has one physical internal hard disk, 30 or 40 GB, partitioned
into C and D volumes.
The C volume is getting pretty full. The D volume is empty, except for a
few empty folders apparently installed by Windows, and one folder with
some pretty photos in it, also apparently installed by Windows.
I mostly use this machine for Dragon Naturally Speaking and MS Office.
However, I've installed a few games and some shareware. It looks like
all the applications got installed on the C partition. C:\documents and
settings\MyUserName\My Documents is getting up to about 1 GB, because
the Dragon voice model files are large.
Should I start saving documents to drive D? Should I start saving my
Dragon Voic models to Drive D, or just move them there? How do I do
that? Should I start installing applications on Drive D? How do I do that?
It seems reasonable to just move MyUserName\MyDocuments to drive D. I
think the applications won't be able to find the documents, though.
In the Macintosh world, I'd drag and drop, and be done in a few minutes.
This XP interface seems really weird.
I'm fairly savvy re the Macintosh. No doubt, many of the same principles
apply. I did try to do my homework. I read David Pogues "XP--The Missing
Manual." I still can't figure it out.
A few clues would be most welcome. I can probably take it from there.
Cheers,
Tim
Hi,
I come from planet Macintosh. For reasons I won't go into, I now have
this Windows XP laptop. It's kinda different. I think it's mostly the
new look and feel of XP.
The laptop has one physical internal hard disk, 30 or 40 GB, partitioned
into C and D volumes.
The C volume is getting pretty full. The D volume is empty, except for a
few empty folders apparently installed by Windows, and one folder with
some pretty photos in it, also apparently installed by Windows.
I mostly use this machine for Dragon Naturally Speaking and MS Office.
However, I've installed a few games and some shareware. It looks like
all the applications got installed on the C partition. C:\documents and
settings\MyUserName\My Documents is getting up to about 1 GB, because
the Dragon voice model files are large.
Should I start saving documents to drive D? Should I start saving my
Dragon Voic models to Drive D, or just move them there? How do I do
that? Should I start installing applications on Drive D? How do I do that?
It seems reasonable to just move MyUserName\MyDocuments to drive D. I
think the applications won't be able to find the documents, though.
In the Macintosh world, I'd drag and drop, and be done in a few minutes.
This XP interface seems really weird.
I'm fairly savvy re the Macintosh. No doubt, many of the same principles
apply. I did try to do my homework. I read David Pogues "XP--The Missing
Manual." I still can't figure it out.
A few clues would be most welcome. I can probably take it from there.
Cheers,
Tim