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35724	2002-02-15 04:00:00	In a recent article on formatting Large hard drive it was suggested that in a small partition all the programes that affect the registry be loaded into this partition and other programmes be loaded into to the next partitions. My question is, how does one know which programmes will not effect the registry? Can you help	Guest (0)
35725	2002-02-15 04:42:00	Basically all windows programs modify the registry (unfortunatly). Prehaps they were meaning keeping all your documents and other files (eg MP3s etc) on a seperate partition.	Guest (0)
35726	2002-02-15 07:03:00	there are several ways of setting up a multi partioned system. a good way for most is to have a windows+intergrated apps partion, a main apps&storage partion, and mayby another storage partion. what i mean by intergrated apps is ones that intergrate highly with windows. eg office,nortons. the idea behind all this is that when windows dies you can format reinstall windows, make new links to the apps on the other drives and you're away. however any app that is highly intergrated will not work with the 'new windows' without being uninstalled then totaly reinstalled, hence its better to put them with the os so it gets removed when you format.	Guest (0)
35727	2002-02-15 07:41:00	I have partitioned my hard disk into C: os and many programs related to the os, D: prgram files, E: Data and F: Swap file and it has been working very well with no problems with the registry. I had to reinstall the os a little while ago and it was relatively painless. With the programs in there own partition I just reinstalled them and managed to retain a lot setting and things. I have heard of people saying that if a program writes to the registry it should be installed with the os but it should not make any difference because all it is doing is basicaly writing to a file.	Guest (0)
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