So, I mentioned that I plan on installing Win7 pretty soon. First, for purely "never give up" reasons, I'm trying to fix this virus I currently have. Once that's done with I want to move to Win7 64-bit.
Of course I'm going to do a clean install. So, no big deal, I've installed it at work a small handful of times already; it's a simple smooth install. Why bother blogging about it?
Because I am unable to just do things the simple way. Customization is my middle name.
When I built this PC (back in Jan '07) I wanted faster application response. After reading many articles, I decided the best (with limited budget) way to do this was to have one fast drive as the boot drive (WD Raptor 74GB, 10k rpm) and a bigger, but slower drive to hold data (Seagate Barracuda 400GB 7.2k rpm). (This was the best one could do in the pre SSD days without hassling with RAID.)
After using it for two years it doesn't really seem to have paid off. I still have to wait agonizingly long for the PC to finish booting and to launch new app, and especially to switch between users. This may be the infamous Windows cruft that accumulates after three years of use and installing too many utility apps.
Nonetheless, for my Win7 upgrade I'm going to do it again.
On XP I never did manage to completely get all the user data over onto the data drive. Unlike linux where you can specify which partition to use for the various root level folders, Windows gives you no such opportunity to say that you want "Documents & Settings" on the D: drive. The best I did, after the users were created, was to move the "My Documents" location for everybody. Really that's 90% good enough. However you do end up with the odd scenario where you drag a file from "My Photos" onto your desktop and it does a copy instead of a move.
With Win7 I want to do this right from the installation, not as an after fact.
I also want to have the page file and the hibernate file on a different logical drive/partition formatted with FAT32 vs the OS partition as NTFS.
to be continued...
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