Getting Ready to Change Computers

HI Mr Andy,
I just bought a used Thinkpad T43p myself. My first laptop, and Im like a youngun at Christmas. Itll be old, but I figured itll do for awhile if I ever get my rearend finally out and about. Like you I like simple and something easy for my aging gray matter to find. To that end I keep to names familar to me. With "C" being smallest at about 2 gigs, "D" being 8 gigs, "E" being 10 gigs. I force windows into D drive all by itself while it automatically installs the little system files into C drive. I put all my drivers in C drive also. 10 gigs total for OS allows for quicker scans, defragging, and tweaking. E drive is all my applications and 3rd party programs that allow me to indicate where to put them. I named it toolbox, or tacklebox or some such thing. I split up remaining storage similarly into manageable sizes called something like trunk, closet, attic, basement. IM forever losing things so the challenge for me is coming up with names for drives and directories that tell me what I have intuitively. The defaults just leave me scratching my head.
After 10 years and all the thousands of pics and tidbits you must have...all I can say is ouch!.
Take care farmboy.
Cornbread

I keep everything important in the My Documents folder. Most programs can always be downloaded whenever you change computers, so I just keep a text file with a list of the programs I use. The only additional step is to export my firefox bookmarks into My Documents, because I've spent a good bit of time organizing them.

Being a Traveler, I 50 percent need to carry the program disk with me, a person really never knows when the computer will have a problem and I need to purchase a new computer I have been lucky with computers, not with cameras, I have purchased camera in Peru and in Ecuador, terrible places to try to buy a camera. I needed one in Togo, however made the one I had work.

My programs I use are hard to find, I am backing up a few on I do not have to worry about them stopping their page.

You will soon find out when you use a computer in a Internet shoppe in Thailand detailed report will be available to police as to the websites you visited for all farang customers. You will need to show a passport to use the computers. Call me paranoid but I was told this by several Internet shoppe owners. Jing Jing. They also said if this happens I can use the "THAI ONLY" computers for a fee, of course.