Just a thought to make things easier in the future: Use TweakUI (free from Microsoft) to shift the actually useful things out of the "Documents & Settings" to somewhere else, preferably on another partition.
As a start, you could move: My Documents Desktop Favorites You can also shift "My Pictures", "My Music", "My Videos" ... Having these files off the Windows partition is a safer, it makes backing up easier, and makes reinstalling/recovering much simpler. It's a bit of a pain with multiple users - you have to log in with admin rights to each but doesn't take long, and recovering or reinstalling is SO much simpler. Both TweakUI v1.33 (for Win2000 and earlier) and TweakUI-XP let you move special folders. In TweakUI XP, they're somewhat hidden - being called "Special Folders" under the "My Computer" tab - it's a drop-down list. If you use Outlook, you can also shift the Outlook.PST file (when Outlook isn't running). Then when it starts, it'll complain that it can't find "Outlook.pst" and offer you a "Browse for" box. This will let you point at the file's new location - it'll remember after this. I believe (anecdotally) that the latest version of Outlook lets you shift the main .pst file but this technique works with Outlook 2000/2002 as well. Now if only we could turn the registry into a pile of ".cfg" files :-) Cheers Giovanni ======================================================================== Giovanni Moretti | Institute of Information Sciences and Technology Senior Lecturer | Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Computer Science | Ph 64-6-3505799x2474 == Fax 64-6-3502259 == ZL2BOI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/moretti mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin/Mina > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DUG] Offtopic: Help - System crash > > > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone can help. My hard drive went AWOL > early last week. > Fortunately I've been able to rebuild my system and retrieve > most of my > important data from backups. Programs of course are a > different story, but > again I've been able to find most of my original program files. > > I now have a few niggling issues that I need to fix as follows :- > > 1. My address book data has disappeared but it's still > available in Outlook > Express. I've tried Importing it back from > c:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\AddressBook\User.wab > but am obviously doing somwthing wrong. What? > > 2. I have a copy of all the data off my old Hard Drive. > Where should I look > for my Browser "Favourites" folder as I would like to restore > it into the > new system. > > 3. As for 2) above, the Dictionary file for MS Word. > > 4. I accidentally opted to "Customise My Desktop" in > Start\Settings\Active > Desktop, instead of "Update Now". Now I cannot drag and drop > the icons into > groups that make sense to me. They just go straight back > where they were. > How do I regain control here? > > 5. Now for the really annoying one. The Dial Up Connection > dialog box keeps > on popping up and taking over control of whatever else I may > be doing. It > seems to be predominantly initiated by activity within > Windows Explorer but > goes off on its own as well, sometimes every five or ten > seconds. I've > tried pausing the Task Scheduler and disabled the auto scan > on my McAffee > virus > application all to no avail. I'd appreciate some tips on > where to look. > > Thanks > > Colin > > > Colin R Dillicar > Colmin Associates > Auckland New Zealand > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph +64 9 834 4040 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
