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Old Sep 20, 2016 | 11:28 am
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
Oh, I see what you mean. Why bother? Put everything in My Documents and you'll get the same benefit as well as catch what a lot of programs will do by default.
When I still used Windows, I pointed My Documents to D: and that took care of the "default loving" programs. In the pre-SSD era it was faster to put it even on a separate drive. It used to be (still is?) good practice to keep your system and user data on separate partitions/drives.
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