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Originally Posted by imsati
Take my setup, for example. My Windows HDD has the following partitions: Windows OS, Windows Software, and my personal partition. In my case, separating the OS from the installed software was purely an OCD/organizational preference, not to spare me from reinstalling programs after an OS format/reinstall.
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how is that working out for you so far? are you running to any kind of problems like creating shorcuts for every program or uninstalling them? i'm also partly doing this for organizational purposes.
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Originally Posted by MrRandom
in your os, there is a file, telling all of the programs installed, where to find them, etc.
when you install a new os, that file will only include the programs pre installed into the os (internet explorer, windows mail, and so on) and the computer will basically think that the programs arent even there.
you can still run them, but you will need to either go through every folder every time you want to run a program, or create shortcuts to every application. also, you may loose the ability to uninstall programs, because windows uninstaller wont see that the programs are even there.
so really, dont do it, its just a waste of time.
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hmm so would you happen to know where/name of this file that tells where to find the programs? if so, then cant i just save this file and when i reinstall the OS, then just replace the older file with the newer one?