On 9/29/2016 8:53 AM, Ray Davison wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> I have found a number of non-Microsoft applications that will not >> function unless they are installed on C. > > Do you have a list?
Eraser High-Logic MainType Inctrl5 NetworkIndicator RealPlayer VideoLAN (VLC) The following insist on installing in C:\Program Files GIMP 2 doPDF (There might be others; this is only a quickly generated list.) > Any apps on a boot partition will be an issue the next time the OS is > replaced. And, I have apps that installed on a boot partition that I > moved to an apps partition. Some apps that install on the boot > partition, and dump stuff in the registry, work fine without being on > the boot partition or having registry entries. >> >> Microsoft's Office somehow got installed on D. > > There are no "somehows". You need to find how it happened. I have > never had an issue putting Office where I wanted, and it's data in a > different place. I did not do it. I had a "PC guru" reinstall Windows 7. He actually upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from some other Windows 7 version. He also partitioned my SSD into C and D with the spinner being J; previously, the SSD was a single partition C. The "guru" then installed Office on D. However, I wanted D to be "Data", so I moved it to the spinner and moved J to the SSD. Office moved to the spinner with D. Since I had not yet started reinstalled my other applications, I was then able to install them on J. >> Fortunately, none of my data were affected. It was my initial plan >> that any problem with C/J would not touch D and vice-versa; that plan >> proved valid. > > Once you are off the boot partition, I would not expect any damage to > existing files. >> >> Note: I use Thunderbird instead of SeaMonkey's Mail-News capability >> because I frequently swtich between browser profiles and do not want >> to lose my current Mail-News session during such a switch. >> > Point taken. But how about closing one SM profile and opening to the > same Mail-News files in a new SM profile? Get the mail files bout of > the profile trees, and have all SM/TB profiles use the same mail files, > just not at the same time. Or, split mail between your own profiles, or > yours and the profiles of someone else. That is, each profile can share > or not any mail files you chose. For the way I operate, I find it quite convenient for browser and mail-news to be separate executables. This is from habits developed when my prior configuration used Eudora Lite for E-mail before Windows 7, which would not install Eudora, and before moving to an ISP that would not support Eudora. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Donald Trump claims he is a successful businessman. If so, how does he explain the number of his enterprises that have gone bankrupt? _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
