Diane,
>I hate those ribbon cables. They are so bulky and in the way when I'm
> trying to plug things in.
One of my computers came with the newer round cables. But I kind of prefer
the ribbon cables because they are a bit more flexable. The round ones are
supposed I think to be less sensitive to noise because the individual wires
may be shielded. I'm not sure of that, I haven't used that kind of cable
since.
> I'm not a 'techie' at all. I only try to fix my own computer because I
> can't afford to get it fixed and I'm not afraid to try--because if I
> blow it up, well, I only damanged my own.
I used to work on my own cars for the same reason. But I haven't done that
in a long time. That's partly becase I can't tell what is what any longer
and becayse I have been able to aford newer cars that don't need repares as
much. Of couse when they do need them it cost an arm and a leg. Fortunately
I am not quite as financially strapped as when I bought mostly used cars.
> I usually can follow directrions well. I figure it's all a learning
> experience. :)
As things get more complicated and more exotic in computing the manuals seem
to be written by idiots who can't get it through their thick heads that
people don't know the new technology as well as the older stuff. I bought a
Net Gear Network Attatched Storage Device. You put your own hard drives in
it and connect it to your network. It took a long time to get it working,
then I had to rearrange my network and now it doesn't work again. I called
the help folks the first time and I couldn't understand one word in five
that the lady tech said, except, 'OK'. And she insisted that I give her the
unit seriel # first. It was printed with tiny text and Bs looked like 8s. I
finally got it going myself.
> I discovered in the past that even though my OS was on C and
> my software installation was on D, when C went, so did the software.
It was the registry entries that went. They are part of the OS and without
them the OS has no idea about any applications that used to be installed.
Personally I would install the applications on the C partition. If it is too
small, then resintall the OS and enlarge the C partition. If you have a
large drive that should leave plenty os space for a D drive, then you can
put your data theere.
> Even though you install it on another drive, it still puts bits on the
> OS drive. Go figure.
Yep, the application install has to tell the OS about those applications,
that information goes into the registry.
Jim
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