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Author:  PaulKey [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:54 pm ]
Post subject:  New Win 7 User

Hi guys....

As the title suggests I'm a new W7 user having previously been an XP man.

Just a quickie....... On my new pc I have an external drive attached and a single partitioned hdd so it's no surprise for me to be seeing :C, :D, :E (dvd drive) and :F (external). What I can't work out is what :Q (Local Disk) is ! I can't access it and neither does it appear to have any size as it's showing 0 bytes used and free space.

Any ideas what this is please ?

Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Win 7 User

Q disk I believe is a virtual drive, have you got Office 2010 installed?

Author:  PaulKey [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Win 7 User

I have Office Starter Free Edition.... but that's in the :C drive.

Also...... why :Q ?

Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Win 7 User

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The "Click-to-Run" virtual drive (Q:) is created when Office Starter 2010 is installed. The following two white papers provide prescriptive image creation steps to relabel this drive, and include registry keys to avoid anti-malware incompatibility.


Quote:
Microsoft Office Starter 2010, which will be preinstalled on OEM machines, uses the new Click-to-Run (C2R) technology to host the Office Starter files in a virtualized application space. This restricted space is mapped to a drive that cannot be accessed by the user, but is visible in Windows Explorer. To help communicate to the user that this drive is not accessible, Microsoft provides OEMs with the ability to label this drive with a more descriptive localized label.


clicky

Author:  PaulKey [ Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Win 7 User

You are a true gent !

Thank you very much :)

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