Everyone knows how to install an operating system, but I do have some good planning and setup solutions that I recommend.
1. Plan hard disks reasonably and store files in different logical partitions according to classification.
Now the hard disk is very large, often dozens of GB, in order to facilitate management, need to partition. For example, a 40GB hard drive can be divided into four partitions:
1. System area. Install the operating system and application software. Why install the application software with the operating system? There was a time when I noticed that a lot of people liked to have their applications and operating systems installed in separate zones. In fact, this is unreasonable, because the system crash reinstall, the installed application software also followed the scrap, the skin does not exist, the hair will be a blessing? In addition, when installing the application software, the default installation path is the system zone :/program Files /XXX. If it is installed in another partition, you need to modify the path, which is very troublesome. Or installed in the same area, damage and loss, in case the system crashes, need to be reinstalled, you can do not scruple to quickly format this partition, thorough cleaning, for the new system to provide a clean environment.
The system area should not be set too small, because the operating system and all kinds of application software are installed, cache files are also stored here, and when the system runs, there will be many temporary files, so there must be enough available space, otherwise it will affect the normal operation of the system, or slow down. The system area can be allocated at least 10G of space. In fact, 10G space is not very large, now an operating system almost uses 1G, plus a variety of software, games, almost 6 or 7G.
2. Software area. Store all kinds of common software, even including the operating system installation disk. Copying the operating system installation disk to your hard drive is necessary because it is sometimes used to add components (such as IIS), or in case you need to reinstall the operating system, and is faster than installing it from a CD-ROM.
3. Data area. Store all kinds of materials, text, images, animation, music, small movies, and so on. These materials are also grouped into folders to create a personal electronic library. Therefore, the partition can be slightly larger.
4. Works Area. Store the fruits of your hard work. For example, software code, text, financial statements, graphics, FLASH artwork, and so on. Therefore, this area is the computer’s most valuable place, can be carefully protected.
The benefits of this approach are obvious, with the data being divided into different categories and each of the four sections doing its job in an orderly fashion.
Second, do not store valuable files in the system area. Since it is the system area, let the system gallop here alone, we usually do not have to visit it, just every few months or half a year, to sort out the hard disk fragments in this area can be. Previously said, the system partition can be reinstalled on the entire logical disk format, if there is a more important file, it may be because of negligence and omission, regret too late. By default, My Documents is stored in the same area as the operating system. But My Documents usually has a lot of valuable documents — IE favorites, OutLook inboxes, and so on. Hence the need to move away. Method is: right click the mouse “my documents”, in the pop-up window, choose “target folder – move”, “my documents” to other partitions.
3. Set a temporary folder under the root directory of each partition.
Usually we always come into contact with a lot of documents from the outside world, downloaded from the Internet, colleagues, and so on, before really understanding, it is difficult to know whether it is useful; Or they sometimes create temporary files, for example, zip some files and send them to others, after the zip package is sent, it becomes unnecessary. In short, this kind of temporary documents are very many, if randomly put, a long time, it will be easy to chaos, you do not know what is needed and what is not needed, even if you want to clean up, but also a myriad of things, have the heart. The solution is to create a folder at the root of each partition just for these temporary files and clean it up regularly to make sure things don’t get out of hand. \
The above is my daily use of computer some experience, are some of the very superficial approach, however, the use of effective.