Originally Posted by crunchie

Suggest you have your IT department modify their standard configurations so that all laptop harddrives are partitioned into 2 separate logical drives (aka partitions). All application binaries are installed into C:\ as usual and all user data files, including environment settings into D:\ (or whatever drive letter your IT chooses). This makes for easier maintenance and transfers (like your current situation where you need to move your data to another machine). Also a lot easier to do personal backups - don't count on IT departments to cover all bases.