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    Windows 7 Single or Multiple Hard Drives for Best Performance

    I just rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I had thought to put My Pictures and My Music on separate Hard Drives from the Operating System and everything else; OR would performance be better with all on one hard drive and backing up the My Music and My Pictures to separate Hard Drives...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 -Seeking "Real world" recommendation for OS partition size

    I have recently installed W7 Pro 64-bit but I'm still playing around with it. I understand that M$ recommends 20 GB for x64. I would like to give it a generous amount of room to work, but I don't want to go overboard. I have 3.5 GB of system memory but plan to upgrade to up to 4 or 6, so I...
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    Windows 7 Many folders on the network

    When i go into my network from any computer to the win 7 computer 9 document folders, 9 music folders and 9 pic folders come up. Any idea how to get rid of them?
  4. Windows 7 Can I map my User directory to another drive?

    I created two partitions when installing Win7 RTM, a 65gb C drive for the OS and a ~800gb D drive for my applications. I didn't think about my User directory while doing this and where I'd store all of my music, pictures, and so forth. I like keeping everything in the User directory as it's...
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    Windows 7 Share File Between Libraries

    Hi all, Is it possible to share a file or directory between 2+ libraries? There are at least three scenarios for which I can see this being highly useful -- 1) Flagging files/folders for backup, possibly in quite disparate places. I realise that you can do this from the Backup applet but...
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    Windows 7 Problem with Libraries

    In Vista, it was possible to change the location of My Documents, My Music etc. by adjusting the properties of those special folders, and pointing them to an alternate location. I could change the location of My Music by selecting the Location tab under Properties, and define a new folder. In...