@slf1: Well, as crappy as Vista was at least you got porn on it. Take that, iPhone!

@loners: I think that would be this one: [bbs.et8.net] (Google refuses to translate it) but I'm not sure if there is an official website at all.

@neverbeenback: No, but that's just one example. Another one: a program creates a new folder in your user directory. If you just moved a few folders it will be created in C:\Users\username. Also the AppData is still stored there. Just moving a few folders leads to having an inconsistent setup with still lots of data…

@neverbeenback: Yes, in XP there was even an option in the context menu to move your files. But if you just drag'n'drop them Windows still uses C:\Users as your default user directory. So e.g. if you create a new user you will have to move those folders again. With the preinstall method you just replace the old path…

@InsaneJester17: Yes. It moves the whole C:\Users to a completely new location (D:\Users in my case) - well actually it doesn't move it but uses the new path from the very first moment and never even creates C:\Users.

@Monty: Also defragmentation is definitely not necessary on SSDs. They don't store data the same way HDDs do. Because of that a SSD can never be defragmented and defragmenting it will 1) harm the disc and 2) will show no performance gain.

@soylentseth1: I took a quite complicated road (in my eeePC 901 there is no magnetic drive to map to): on every boot I copy the whole Chrome profile to a RAM disk using Robocopy. Chrome allows you to start with a custom path to your profile using —user-data-dir. So I use a profile that's stored in the RAM completely.…

Concerning moving your user directory in Windows XP/Vista/7: as you probably will do a fresh install anyway take the time to build your own Windows disc with an autounattend.xml on it. In this file you specify where to move the user directoy using the ProfilesDirectory directive in oobeSystem. nLite for XP provides…

@kitsuneconundrum: I really envy him ... he's like the Chuck Norris of semi-nudity

SMS (it's an app, too, right?)

#corrections

For all the Android users out there: [www.appbrain.com] - LOTS of zombies on the way to work/school/party ...

Doesn't work for me in Germany. I used [www.yougetsignal.com] to check if the port is open (it's closed) and used bing.com's IP but nothing. Got the "US only" popup the second I visited hulu.

@clompers: OMG, that would be beyond awesome ... and since the minute I read your comment I can't stop thinking of ways how it would be possible to do that. I mean you would have to know the hash in advance, right? But how?!?

@yeah write: yes it does, but you have to create a bookmark (like the others already said).

@Raven Riley: grrrreat choice of nickname!

It's their Google Analytics code. They get paid for everyone looking at the logo....

@vitalyb: Calendar Quick Add [www.appbrain.com] does the same on Android

@D4RkNIKON: it's just like with those guys who think they can drive better just because they can afford a Porsche now (great fun on a German Autobahn with no speed limits btw). Or those who call themselves Webdesigner because they "mastered" a Dreamweaver install without calling the support line.

I don't like that tip. It creates numerous mails with the only purpose to be deleted. If your account doesn't get much mail why bother to increase the frequency? It's inefficent (in the similar post [lifehacker.com] I remember a commenter - gina trapani to be precise - telling the name for this kind of algorithm but…