-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial--COA
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:27 -0500
Sandi,
No, I was referring to any installed app you might wish to Move
elsewhere. I used IE as an example of one you might want to either Move (to
a separate partition, perhaps) or Rename.
COA is one of those rare apps that doesn't have or need an installation
routine. It can be run from any location, including a USB thumb key. As
you suggested, the best place for it would be inside the Program Files area,
just to keep it with all of the other apps. But, the app itself doesn't
care where it is (as long as the path statement contains less characters
than the allowed max -which is 256 characters, I think). In other words, it
won't do any harm to run it from right where it is. I place it in the
Program Files area before creating a shortcut to it for my QuickLaunch bar
because I'm quite nuts about organizing my stuff. lol
As far as my being appalled at your, well anyone's, lack of
organization, I don't get emotionally involved in those things because
everyone has their own ideas about what works for them. All I try to do is
to make suggestions for making things easier to locate and back up
occasionally. If your system (or lack thereof) works for you, there's
absolutely no reason to change it. :O)
Peace,
GMan
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts Tutorial--COA
>I may be out of my depth here. Are you suggesting I practice by moving the
> COA app itself to a new location? I went to my maintenance utilities
> folder
> on my desktop which contains only shortcuts to things like Cleanup,
> Registry
> Mechanic, and now COA. I checked properties and the target shows this:
> "C:\My Documents\unzipped\COA2 1.0\COA2.exe"
> Properties also says Start In: "C:\My Documents\unzipped\COA2 1.0"
> I have not moved the app once I extracted it, just made the shortcut for
> easy access.
> And I have a confession to make! I could not find it on C Drive until I
> did
> a search. It is in C:\My Documents unzipped, just like it said in
> Properties on the shortcut.
> I am sure you would be appalled at my lack of organization but half the
> time
> I just "aim" and hope for the best, not really knowing what I am doing.
> Seems it should be in C Program files.
> Sandi
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