How much space for WIndows ME Install

"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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lol And I remember that first computer I got in 1998 with a whopping
2.1GB drive running Windows 98 g
Joan

Sure beats the 44MB drive that came in my 286, around 1987. Didn't come with
any of that newfangled Windows stuff, of course. :-)

O.G.

I'm not saying that FindFast indexing can't cause the problem just that it
is one of hundreds of applications that can cause defrag to restart. Any
application that continually polls and or writes to the system disk can
cause the problem so having a smaller C partition reduces the time taken
to defrag and thus helps prevent defrag restarting due to excessive polls.
--
Mike Maltby



Old Geezer wrote:

I'll take your word for it, Mike. But I do recall when I was using
Word and Excel from Office 97, under Win98, I had that pesky
continuous restart problem with Defrag and read somewhere--I think in
one of the computer magazines--that Findfast caused that and other
problems and should be disabled. My recollection is that after that,
when I stopped Findfast from the Task Manager I didn't have any more
Defrag restart problems. Dunno, maybe just coincidence.

O.G.

Inline.

Shane wrote:

Hard to beat a 2nd hd, too, of course. Though I've argued often
enough with those who virtually berate anyone who doesn't get one,
that plenty of people have more important things, eg kids, or a
mortgage to spend their cash on. But you know how it goes - a
seperate drive is better than a seperate partition. A seperate
machine is better than a seperate drive. A machine in a different
building is better than two at the same address, and for want of a
nail Raymond Massey was lost!

As you say a 2nd HD would be great but again there are things that need my
cash more like bills and food just to stay alive and doing it on benefit
makes it impossible g


Sure, Joan. It's just that once Heather and George have said the same
it begins to look like justifying - to new users - leaving things as
they are. Partitioning scares people - it scared me first time I did
it - so they look for reasons to avoid it. Mike, Noel, Walterius and
I will be dismissed as obsessives or geeks or 'anal' or whatever, and
you, Figgs and George the voices of reason and common-sense. When
you're all crazy as a barrelful of monkeys!

:-)

It scared the life out of me the first time I did it on that WinME machine
so I could put XP on there, and trouble is the more I read the manual the
more confused I became, which doesn't take a lot to do g and I certainly
wouldn't say you Mike and Noel are obsessive geeks just very sensible and
informed people who know what they are doing and help the rest of us to
better understand what we are doing.
As for us being a crazy barrelful of monkeys what would you do without us
g


Anyway. That's that. If any new users have read all this and still
don't believe they should partition, or get another drive, move My
Documents etc there, or at least backup with due diligence, it's
their own data's funeral.
Well said g
Joan

Shane

Understood, Mike, and thanks again.

O.G.


"Mike M" wrote in message
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I'm not saying that FindFast indexing can't cause the problem just that it
is one of hundreds of applications that can cause defrag to restart. Any
application that continually polls and or writes to the system disk can
cause the problem so having a smaller C partition reduces the time taken
to defrag and thus helps prevent defrag restarting due to excessive polls.
--
Mike Maltby



Old Geezer wrote:

I'll take your word for it, Mike. But I do recall when I was using
Word and Excel from Office 97, under Win98, I had that pesky
continuous restart problem with Defrag and read somewhere--I think in
one of the computer magazines--that Findfast caused that and other
problems and should be disabled. My recollection is that after that,
when I stopped Findfast from the Task Manager I didn't have any more
Defrag restart problems. Dunno, maybe just coincidence.

O.G.

You're welcome. Sorry if I appeared overly negative about FF, that as
never my intention, just that it is only one of many apps that can cause
the problem.

Cheers,
--
Mike Maltby



Old Geezer wrote:

Understood, Mike, and thanks again.