Is there a way to relocate Document and Settings from C drive to other drives?

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networm

Hi all,

I am running out of space on the system drive C drive:

In particular, I have 11GB space originally on C, I thought it should been
sufficient when I partitioned my harddisks a while ago.

Now after taking a look, I found the breakdown is as follows, roughly:

Documents and Settings: 4.5GB
Windows: 4GB
Program Files: 1.5GB
Pagefile.sys: 1GB


I guess I could not safely re-partition the drives to grab some space from
other partitions to this C drive.

But I guess I could relocate some files.

I guess I cannot relocate Windows and Pagefile.sys; and it is going to
relatively harder to relocate Program Files...

But can I relocate "Documents and Settings" safely?

In particular, I've found the following directory takes about 3GB space:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data

More specifically, the Google Desktop Search silently occupied 1.5GB. I have
tried to set my preferences, but amazingly Google Desktop Search does not
even offer an option to change the location of their cache file from C drive
to other places...

And also under Applicaton Data folder, Outlook occupies 2.1GB-I have a lot
of emails stored.

I really want to relocate these documents safely, esp. Outlook Emails. But
is there a way to do this safely? I am really worrying about if I do
something wrong, then my whole email system will screw up...

What can I do? Could you please help?

Thanks a lot!
 
For pst;
With OL closed copy pst(s) to new location, rename old pst's, start OL it
will complain, browse to the new location. Ensure any archive settings are
pointing to the correct location/file
Page File
You can locate this elsewere, See System/hardware/Advanced/Performance
options
My Documents, rt click>properties>move
Internet Options
Temp Internet Files>settings reduce to 50mb
Program Files
Uninstall apps and use Custom install to install to other drive
Ensure you have cleaned temp files.

I'm using 10.5gb for C win partition and currently have 2.5gb free
 
Hard drives can be had for less than $50 these days. Why not slap a second
one in your system and instead of "reallocating" whatever space you have,
add more.

Leave your programs where they are - move the other stuff. Photos, music,
Word docs, spreadsheets, miscellaneous info - all of that can go on the
second drive.
 
DL said:
For pst;
With OL closed copy pst(s) to new location, rename old pst's, start OL it
will complain, browse to the new location. Ensure any archive settings are
pointing to the correct location/file
Page File
You can locate this elsewere, See System/hardware/Advanced/Performance
options
My Documents, rt click>properties>move
Internet Options
Temp Internet Files>settings reduce to 50mb
Program Files
Uninstall apps and use Custom install to install to other drive
Ensure you have cleaned temp files.

I'm using 10.5gb for C win partition and currently have 2.5gb free
Click to expand...

Thanks a lot. I've successfully relocated the Outlook files to another drive
and made about 2.1GB space on C drive. I am very happy about it. The OL did
pop up window to prompt me to browse for new locations of the PST files. I
pointed them to the new directions. So far so good.
 
Thanks a lot. I've successfully relocated the Outlook files to another drive
and made about 2.1GB space on C drive. I am very happy about it. The OL did
pop up window to prompt me to browse for new locations of the PST files. I
pointed them to the new directions. So far so good.
Click to expand...

Have you tried moving "My Documents"?
 
networm said:
Because the 2.1GB under Documents and Settings was occupied by THE
OUTLOOK. And I think they are connected intimately.
Click to expand...

They're not. You can store Outlook's PSTs in any folder to which you have
access permissions. From another of your posts, I see you've discovered
that.
 
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