Re: [Thinkpad] OT More space-saving on TP upgraded to W2k

In article <20060111154807.C51A66E00E8@illuminati.stderr.org>, you wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:22:28 +0200, Dominique Pivard wrote:
>>Just curious: what's the size of your HDD? 40-60 GB HDD are pretty
>>affordable these days. I don't know how you value your own time, but I'd
>>say that the going price of a 40 GB drive is worth less than one hour of
>>my own time. So instead of desperately hunting useless files, I'd buy a
>>bigger drive and use Acronis TrueImage or equivalent to clone the
>>content of the existing drive onto it.
>
>12 gb.
>
>A new drive would not solve the problem, which is too many Windows-
>related files on drive C. I have two other OS on this machine (altogether
>on 8 partitions) and these OSs * all have to start below the
>1024th cylinder. *

If it's just that, make a partition for Program Files and
Windows data above the 1024th cylinder.

While you're at it, christen it as Progs to make it more
compatible with DOS (no space in the file name) ...

Where possible, uninstall Windows software in C:\Program
Files\, reinstall it in I:\Progs.

I'm pretty sure you can lose the Plus! stuff (since the context
continually gets cut, this is not general advice, but only if
you have installed 2K on what used to be a 9x system). You'll
probably have discovered that there's no uninstall option for
it. If so, move it somewhere else and see what happens.

What was your final result with DVD viewing?

-- 
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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