From XP to Win7

[stabiz]

Looking for some win7 professors here.:) I installed win7 on a 640GB drive, but partitioned 200GB for the system. i can only see those 200GB, where is the rest of the disk? It does not show up like in XP.

Also, how do I get shortcuts to much used programs in the lower right corner like in XP?

[Arclight]

Think you still need to partiton the rest of the drive. Go to 'disk management' section in 'Computer Management', gives you a clear picture of the state of your drives.

Do you mean quicklaunch? Create a new toolbar and put this in the folder line: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

[stabiz]

Arclight to the rescue!:up:

[Arclight]

Okay then, glad you got it sorted. :)

Forgot to mention you may need to enable display of 'administrative tools' in 'Start menu' properties, but guess that wasn't needed anyway. :lol:

[stabiz]

Nah, just wrote "computer management" in the start box. Ahhhh, now UAC (?) is disabled (that was driving me nuts, yes I know what I want to do, dammit) and after wild clciking and swearing the quick launch buttons are where they are supposed to be.:) Time for a break.

[Arclight]

"compmgmt.msc" works too. :yep:

UAC is the first thing I disable after install. And right after that comes customizing the whole appaerance and functioning of Start Menu and the likes. Takes a little time, but makes it so much more pleasant to work with. :DL

[Wolfehunter]

I use fdisk to partition disk.. maybe I'm just old school hehehe.

[Arclight]

It's all good. :salute:

Disk manager just gives nice graphic display of your drive; how many partitions there are, and if there's any unpartitioned space.