{"id":22,"date":"2005-02-17T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/02\/c-vs-d\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T15:49:52","slug":"c-vs-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/02\/c-vs-d.html","title":{"rendered":"C: vs D:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margie’s hard drive at home is divided between C: and D:. Everything, of course, is installed on C:, and copying over a 900Mb CoH installation Zip file probably didn’t help things any. So the question came up of how to easily shift things between C: and D: without un\/reinstalling various applications (bleah).
\nThe three ideas (here described for WinXP Pro) came to mind. Best to have all apps closed during this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Do a Disk Cleanup<\/strong>. This is in the Start menu under Accessories \/ System Tools \/ Disk Cleanup<\/em>. If there’s old installation files, unused temp files, etc., lurking around out there, this is the place to easily clean them up. Doing a defrag afterwards wouldn’t be out of place. (Margie had already done this.)\n
  2. Move the swap file over<\/strong>. Under Control Panel \/ System \/ Advanced \/ (Performance) Settings \/ Advanced \/ (Virtual Memory) Change.<\/em> Use this screen to add a paging space on D: and eliminate or minimize the paging space on C:. There may be restarts involved, or multiple iterations to do so (hard to tell, since it turned out that this had already been done on her machine during a previous space crunch; I took advantage to add a large custom size to support upcoming CoH play). (Official MS KB article here<\/a>.)\n
  3. Move My Documents<\/em> over to another drive<\/strong>. Right-click My Documents <\/em>(off the desktop or the Start menu), then choose Properties \/ Target<\/em>. That will show you the current target folder set for your account as the My Documents folder. Click Move …<\/em>, then choose where you want it to be (e.g., in D:\\, creating a new folder called My Documents there). Accept, and Windows will ask if you want to move the contents over there, too. Yup, you probably do. (More info here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/ol>\n

    FYI.
    \nIn theory, you could some (or, more easily, all) the applications under C:\\Program Files to D:\\ by doing the move and then tweaking the registry, but, damn, that sounds like asking for trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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