In article <48bdef16@news2.actrix.gen.nz>,
~misfit~ <misfit61nz@hooya.com.au> wrote:

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Patrick Vervoorn" typed:

I don't use the 'My Documents' and also don't use Outlook Express.

I use 'My Documents' as quite a few programmes want to save there by 
default. I found it easier to make one change (the location of 'My 
Documents' rather than chamge each programmes default save path.

I think I've taught the programs who want to do this 'by default', to not 
do this. ;)

I use OE due to inertia. It's what I started using and, even though I've 
tried Agent, Mozilla and a few others I find them all a bit of a hassle. I 
just want to get the posts are reply to them in the manner to which I've 
become accustomed. Every other newsreader has been slower for me to use or 
doesn't thread properly....

I actually started reading news with trn, and still am. Nothing threads 
like trn does. Nothing is faster for browsing through a newsgroup than 
trn. But trn is not for everyone. And is also quite old. And quite 
not-maintained anymore, unfortunately.

But, since I have the (already lightly modified) source code available, I 
can always (try to) fix problems with it myself.

I much prefer a fixed-size pagefile on a seperate partition, preferably a 
seperate HDD.

I've done that a few times, but never noticed any speedup. Of course, one 
should avoid use of the pagefile at all. ;)

Also, with the current size of HDs, 5 or 10 or 25GB doesn't make much
difference anymore. ;)

I find that Windows is a lot faster (noticeably so) when it's loading and 
working from a small area of disk. When confined like that it can't throw 
temp files all over the disk, then thrash the heads when it needs to access 
them. <shrug> Whatever works huh? ;-)

That how I do it, but I'm open to other people's suggestions/tips of 
course. If/when I need to (re-)install another XP machine, I'll keep the 
info from this thread in mind...

Regards, Patrick.