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|I need more space on my C drive, but have plenty on the E drive.
| Is it safe to drag
* Never cut and paste (drag). Always copy, paste, verify then delete.
a folder like MS Visual Studio from C to E?
| Or must I uninstall and then reinstall everything in the folder?
* Yes unistall and reinstall to the new location.
| (Yes, I tried to repartition the harddrive but that didn't work.)
| I wonder if setting the compress flag on the C directory would
| slow everything up excessively?
* Compressing the entire drive is not a good idea.
Some things to check;
Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
You could use Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files
greater than 5mB and then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir%
directory for a $NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service
pack is stable and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the
dir. Also check for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by
default should be in the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless
your going to send them to the application vendor, or Microsoft for
troubleshooting purposes. Other options are; moving the pagefile to one of
the other drives, uninstall your programs that are installed in C:\Program
Files and reinstall them to D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user
profiles stored, you can move them, see this article for info on this.
How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP
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