Sounds to me like you have done about as much as you should (except suggest
another HD.) I'd probably leave it alone at this point--except to search out
deletable materials on C:\, as I suggested before. Uninstall info for
Windows patches/upgrades, folders of pre-installation extracted files such
as occur with many programs and especially with drivers installation
packages. You know, the kind that come in self-extracting ZIP files, unzip
themselves to C:\xxxxx, run from there and then remain behind to collect
dust. All that needs to be saved it the ZIP file. Also move such
installation files to D:\ or E:\.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
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"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in
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Suggest you convert E:\ to FAT32. Create a folder there called
anything (though you might typically call it "My Documents", then
right click on the "My Documents" desktop item, Properties. You can
direct it to use whatever folder you want it to, and in this case you
want to use the newly created folder. An option exists to move
everything from the old "My Documents folder to the new. Suggest you
use that, then delete the old C:\My Documents" folder (after making
sure it's empty.)

"My Documents", as it appears on the Desktop and at the top of the
Windows Explorer tree, is also known as the "Personal" Shell folder
Anything that defaults to "My Documents" will default to wherever the
"Personal" environment is Set to be in the Registry. Unfortunately,
many programs discover this information while installing, use it to
set their own "default" Save locations, etc., and retain it forever
afterwards until you reinstall them. You might, instead, want to use
Find in the Registry, search up the old path, and replace it wherever
it occurs.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Sh
ell Folders

But, more to the point... Norton *what*? Why does it prevent you from
converting to FAT32? Regardless, why not UNINSTALL that blasted
Norton, get something better and then do some finagling to get it all
back to one partition? BootIt NG is a simple partitioning tool that
can accomplish it. Ask if you'd like to hear more on the subject. Also
sounds like that system could use some cleaning out. Perhaps you have
a ton of TEMP files and unnecessary Uninstall backups you could dump?
The Fat 32 converter popped up the message about not being able to
convert the Norton installation. I could have, and probably should have
uninstalled it and started over. My guess is that the machine probably
originally had Windows 95 on it and that's why the small partitions in the
first place. I've never used Bootit NG, but I've heard a lot about it. It
couldn't be any more dangerous than Partition Magic! There wouldn't have
been room for PM on there anyway.
I did manage to get the swap file, TIF files, and My Documents moved, I
cleaned out the windows\temp folder and then set TEMP and TMP to
d:\temp in autoexec.bat. I've got about 400 Mb free on C now.
My biggest problem is that he has already installed some program files
on D, including Norton. If I went the whole route I'd have to uninstall
all
those and reinstall after making it all one partition. And I'm not sure if
he has the installation CD's or whatever to reinstall it all with. It's an
old 266 and it takes forever to do anything. I'll check with him and if
he's not in a hurry, I may just set it aside for a couple of days and then
tackle it when I have more time. I've got a couple of others sitting here
right now that are going to have to take precedence.
Thanks to you and PCR for your tips. I've got everything moved that's
moveable. I didn't do any manual registry changes since if I DO decide to
put it all into one partiton, I'd have to undo them again.

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