Re: Configuring default folder locations

From: David Qunt (davidqunt_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:56:33 -0700

"Jose Francisco" <almach@onvol.net> squirted these wordjisms deep inside
the bumtube of the newstwat in
news:#Rm8wQveEHA.2440@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

> Greetings,
>
> This is possible, however you can and probably might mess up the
> system. In my opinion just put your "My Documents" and IMPT documents
> in a separate partition :) Most people do that these days. I rarely
> see people have a partition just for their Program Files.
>
> Thanks and best of luck!
>

In my opinion, there's no real value in installing program files to a
separate partition, because most of them write stuff into the system
folder, and the registry, on your C drive.

So if you have to reinstall your OS, you would also then have to reinstall
your programs, thus negating any benefit of keeping them separate.

The only other benefit I could see would be not having them in the default
C:\Program Files location, in case malware tried to alter them or
something. The chances of malware looking for something in a very specific
place like that are quite small I would think, and if your system is secure
enough this should not be an issue. 

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