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[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums TD7BA. A Guy

 

[paulpicks21]

Dam, I feel real bad now, never seen this thread

So all I can say is welcome to every new member, it's a fantastic forum with many many great guys that dedicate a lot of their time to helping people out and it's a privilege to be a part of it

 

[YTBOY83]

Hello to all the new members.

 

[tallybee]

Hello all, just joined

Not sure I can be of much assistance to anyone, but will try

L

 

[Dave76]

Welcome to Seven Forums tallybee.

Trying is how all of us started.

 

[StalkeR]

Welcome to Seven Forums tallybee !

 

[tallybee]

Thanks guys!

 

[TD7BA]

Thanks everyone! And welcome to the forums, Tellybee!

 

[marsmimar]

I'm new also!
Thanks for the great forum. I've been hanging around these forums for the past few months and decided yesterday to join - so here I am

Hello all, just joined

Not sure I can be of much assistance to anyone, but will try

L

Welcome to you both! You'll find a lot of helpful guys and gals here.

 

[JaidynM]

Welcome tallybee!

 

[Hacker12]

Welcome to everybody who gives me pie (Jk) Welcome everybody.

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums tallybee. A Guy

 

[Perth Aussie]

Thanks Shawn for Tutorials

Having recently bought a laptop with Windows 7 installed, I once again had to learn to drive a new OS. At nearly 60, I have started with DOS and hoped XP would be around forever! But I know I have to move with the times.

After spending weeks trying to figure out how to free up a partition so I could break the 1TB drive into manageable logical drives (it had all 4 primary partitions used), I then started to customize it.

The first thing I did was load Classic Shell so the Start Menu and Explorer worked like XP. Then I noticed the problem of Explorer Templates and ZIP files showing as folders. I thought I would Google for some answers, without much faith in finding any. Then I came across this forum.

I found the two tutorials to fix those problems and at last Windows 7 is operating the way I want it to.

I would like to thank Shawn (and the other members) for this forum and expect to come here often looking for answers. I doubt I will be able to contribute much, so I am posting here as a means of thanking the forum for the help I have already received.

Taming a new OS is always a steep learning curve and places like this are vital in helping to do so.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Welcome to Seven Forums tallybee and Perth Aussie.

 

[marsmimar]

Hello Perth Aussie and welcome to Seven Forums.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Welcome to Seven Forums Perth Aussie and tallybee

Danny

 

[rigz]

O.O woaw welcome to Windows 7 forums.. i was stunned with Perth Aussie's question cant get the exact idea though but im happy that in this forum you got the answer. Welcome all new members.

 

[Perth Aussie]

.. i was stunned with Perth Aussie's question cant get the exact idea though but im happy that in this forum you got the answer.

Thanks for the welcome guys.

I wasn't actually asking any questions, just a quick summary of what I've done to my installation.

The two tutorials I mentioned are this one and this one. They fixed problems that had been annoying me and I could not figure out how to solve them.

The partitioning of the drive was a hardware thing. The laptop, like most computers nowadays, does not come with Windows installation discs, but has the data stored in a Recovery partition. The OS is on another partition and two others have the Boot data and HP Tools.

That meant all 4 primary partitions Windows allows were being used. I like to break my installation into separate "drives", shrinking the C drive to around 100GB then creating D, E, F or more "logical" drives for storing my data. This keeps the C drive clean and quick to defrag and means I can backup Windows and any apps without the need to backup all my data at the same time.

But I couldn't do this because the maximum of 4 partitions was already used. The solution was to burn the Recovery partition to 4 DVD's then delete it. This freed up a partition I could convert to logical instead of primary and split it into as many "drives" as I wanted .

 

[JaidynM]

Welcome Perth Aussie and Hacker12!

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums Perth Aussie. We are all glad we have Shawn here

A Guy