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KvP:
Yeah, it's basically what I do, even though I leave about 10 gigs on the OS drive for wiggle room. Depending on how heavy your "My Documents" load is going to be it's probably a good idea to make it even bigger than that, since it's a pretty big hassle to program the My Documents tree onto a partition that doesn't contain your OS (and I've been fiddling with Windows through my entire life). First things first would be to go into the settings of any program that automatically saves files on the OS drive and redirect them (iTunes, etc.) your temp folder will also be on the OS drive so if you're downloading huge files or whatever you'll definitely want wiggle room if you don't want to run a system cleanup whenever you use a web browser.

Really the biggest thing to do is discipline yourself into changing "C:/Program Files/xxx" to "D:/Program Files/xxx" whenever you install new software.

smack that isaiah:
thanks for all the ideas, guys.  I'll communicate them to her.  The only work i've done with Windows 7 was trying to set up a wireless router for my grandmother last Christmas (I really didn't like it.  I don't like all the handicapping and assumptions that the user's an idiot that Windows makes)

I think moving her directory tree to D: is the best option, but we'll see what works.

est:
Yeah, that is probably a good idea.  In Win 7 I think you can add another library on the D drive and move things over to that, then remove the library that exists on the C drive.

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