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    Opening Windows Explorer always displays my documents

    Thanks Folks! I solved the problem of Explorer opening to the My Documents folder. I did a bit of experiementing from links provided in your replys and came up with this solution. If you change the target in the short cut to %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\ Windows explorer will open in c:\...
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    Opening Windows Explorer always displays my documents

    In prior versions of windows when Windows Explorer was opened it defaulted to C: drive. In XP Pro when I open WE it defaults to the my documents folder. I want it to open to My Computer/Local Disk C but can't seem to find a way to make it do it. No matter what I try it opens to My Documents...
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    Working with large files causes system to become unstable

    Took me awhile to get back to this thread but I did find NAV to be the problem. I disabled Auto Protect and copied large files and large amounts of files across the network and to CD without incident. I also found rendering video projects faster with NAV off. The rendering process creates...
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    Working with large files causes system to become unstable

    The swap file is set to 1.28 Gb, 2X my actural RAM . I only have one hard drive in the system, an 80 GB 7200 RPM ATA WD drive so I can't relocate the swap file. I am going to add another HD as the 50 GB free space I have now isn't anywhere close to enough when dealing with uncompressed AVI...
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    Working with large files causes system to become unstable

    I am running Win 2000 Pro using an Asus motherboard with an Intel P4 2 GHZ processor, 640 Mb RAM. The problem is this, when I am working with large files or a large number of files the system becomes unstable. Example, I copied 17 GB of files across the network to a 2000 Server for backup...
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    Deleting Windows\Installer Folder

    There is a folder under the windows folder called Installer. This folder contains, on my system over 100 Mb of MS Installer files (msi). Is it safe to delete this folder? I have plenty of hard drive space however the installer folder contnues to grow in size. If memory serves, a long time ago I...

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