[AccessD] OT - Would you believe

Well ... I personally like to keep anything that needs to survive an OS install
on a separate partition.  If I need to zap my machine, I can wipe my c drive and
reinstall windows and the apps (or ghost them back).  I would be *really*
unhappy if the outlook.pst file was included in that wipe.  So it happens to be
one of the things that I moved out of documents and settings.

Personally I could quite happily lose most of the profiling that MS puts in
Documents and Settings, and I only use IE on activex required sites, so for me
not even things like bookmarks are kept there.  Though I did move them when I
used IE more.  I tended to and still do move a number of windows default
locations via registry hack ... That includes "My Documents" since many apps
default to that as a save location, and I don't want it buried down multiple
levels of folder on a drive that I plan to wipe when windows next decides to be
a nuisance.

This win2k install has been pretty good ... It has been 18 months since I built
this one, and as a developer I do mess around with it a bit.  I remember with
win98 going 6 months was pretty good.  But then I have also become somewhat
comfortable with manually (and I do mean manually) cleaning the registry of apps
that don't decide to play well with windows.

Stuart

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> DJK(John) Robinson
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 November, 2003 9:42 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT - Would you believe
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>
> (123,000 here)  Why do you think that the .pst file should be in My
> Documents?
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> John Colby
> > Sent: 11 November 2003 00:26
> > To: AccessD
> > Subject: [AccessD] Would you believe
> >
> >
> > 65000 files in 7000 folders just in jcolby directory of
> > documents and settings.  Among them the PST file for Outlook.
> >  What other buried treasures are in there that should be in
> > My Documents?
> >
> > John W. Colby
> > www.colbyconsulting.com
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