Vista - Managing MSDN media

I have 4 over-stuffed binders of MSDN CDs and DVDs. I have to believe some
of these are now inactive. I found the Scheduled Ship and New and Removed
tabs online, but these are by month. Very tedious to go thru each month.

Is there really no such thing as an "active media list", a table of contents
type of thing to tell me what is active, what version is current, and what is
contained on the disk? thanks.

Each disc should have a disc number and version on it. Whenever a disc is
replaced with a new version the version number is incremented. For example:
3096.03 will be replaced by 3096.04.

I've found a rather simple method for keeping my discs organized. I have 2
MSDN binders. I pick the discs with the apps I care about (Visual Studio
2008, operating systems, expression, sql server, etc) and keep the most
current version in one binder. I then keep the previous version of those
discs in the second binder. I then throw everything else away.

Everything is downloadable. Once you realize you will never actually use
most of those discs and stop worrying about them, things become much easier.

Andrew Faust

"Chris-anna Thompson" <Chris-anna Thompson@xxxxxx> wrote
in message news:536B4A96-D1E2-4A3D-A0E4-B7E39209CB75@xxxxxx

I spoke to a support rep yesterday who says the incremented numbers aren't
always a full replacement of the original. Is that not really so (bc your
comment that it does replace is exactly what I thought).

I'm leaning toward your suggestoin - just maintain stuff we use (download
can be so timely) and keep the next older version. Just remarkable that some
simple table of contents doens't exist...

Thanks Andrew.

"Andrew Faust" wrote: