I will be replacing the hard drive and reinstalling WindowsXP and all the software on my neighbor’s computer this weekend.

Along with all the MS Office, address books, calendars, yada yada stuff, he also has Poser 5, PhotoshopCS and Maya (the free learning version).

He is pretty adamant that I install the three resource intensive programs (Poser, PS, Maya) first, as that puts them at the beginning of the HD disk.

When I asked him why, he showed me a couple of the “techy” sites that stated programs closer to the start of the disk are accessed faster, and should be the location for graphic/3D/game type programs.

 

Doesn’t matter a bit to me in which order I install his stuff, but I was just curious if anyone else has heard of this…or is it another one of those “myths” that float around?

 

Curious SWAMP