Moving some Program Files?

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Terry Pinnell

I originally installed XP Home 4 years ago was in partition C and my
data was in D, all on one HD. Space soon became tight on C, so after a
year I started installing applications in D:\Program Files instead. I
have plenty of space on D, and would like to move all the contents of
C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files. How can I safely do that please,
and what implications are there on the registry?
 
Only by uninstalling the application from C: and then re-installing to D:
There are applications that claim the ability to migrate programs from
one location (drive) to another. I doubt their effectiveness.

In my own case I keep 95% of my install applications on the drive
that holds XP. Only Stand-Alone ( No Registry, Shared components)
or very large data apps (Streets & Trips, Google Earth) do I redirect
onto a secondary partition. This is done to keep the XP partition size
reasonably small for taking Images.
 
Terry said:
I originally installed XP Home 4 years ago was in partition C and my
data was in D, all on one HD. Space soon became tight on C, so after a
year I started installing applications in D:\Program Files instead. I
have plenty of space on D, and would like to move all the contents of
C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files. How can I safely do that please,
and what implications are there on the registry?
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http://help.lockergnome.com/lofiversion/index.php/t7357.html
 
R. McCarty said:
Only by uninstalling the application from C: and then re-installing to D:
There are applications that claim the ability to migrate programs from
one location (drive) to another. I doubt their effectiveness.

In my own case I keep 95% of my install applications on the drive
that holds XP. Only Stand-Alone ( No Registry, Shared components)
or very large data apps (Streets & Trips, Google Earth) do I redirect
onto a secondary partition. This is done to keep the XP partition size
reasonably small for taking Images.
Click to expand...

Thanks. Yes, I seem to recall a program ('Move It' or something like
that?) which apparently took care of all the wrinkles. Think I had it
on my old W98 PC, but not sure I ever used it! But don't really fancy
the marathon effort of uninstalling all those major programs...

By "...the drive that holds XP" do you mean the same partition as the
OS? IOW, do you have C:\Windows and C:\Program Files all in same
location? How large is it please? Mine is about 12GB.

Also, straying slightly from original subject, do you have a clone of
your OS in some bootable partition, in case of emergency?
 
Well I have 2 SATA drives that have the following layout:

Disk 1 -- (Hitachi 40 Gigabyte)
|| C:\Win-XP----||D:\Installs-----||F:\Buffer-----||
10 Gig 10Gig 20 Gig
75% Free 80% Free 90% Free
Disk 2 -- (Hitachi 40-Gigabyte)
||E:\Archive-----|| S:\Images-----||Z:\Songs-----||
10 Gig 10 Gig 20 Gig
75% Free 75% Free 60% Free

C:\ Holds XP & 95% of Applications
D:\ Holds Installer modules, Stand-Alone Apps & D:\Program Files
which holds Streets & Trips, Google Earth, Pinball games...
Dedicated Downloads folder, all go here & are then filed.
E:\ Holds Personal Data, Mail, Pictures
**Pagefile.Sys on this partition, Min size of 256 Megabytes
F:\ Holds CD-Installers, Secondary Temp, Redirects DllCache, I386
-> Redirects keeps the XP partition smaller
Workgroup Network Share on this drive
S:\ Holds C: Drive Images, Temp Folders & Other Caches
->Cache folders include IE, Opera, Java, ZAlarm, Logging Folders
Z:\ Holds all Music modules (.Wma, using 64KByte Cluster Size)

The partitioning schema is done so that less used content exists further
onto the drive.
*S:\ has last 2 Images taken, If needed, I boot to my CD-R utilities disk
and restore from the Images Partition - Usually takes 2:00 minutes
Also have a Maxtor USB external that olds Microsoft VPC machines
and all kinds of older or unused software.
 
Terry said:
Thanks, good link. Have downloaded COA and Application Mover to try.
But I also saw several cautionary notes, so will proceed carefully.
Maybe I'll just live with what I have in C:\Program Files and continue
installing to D:\Program Files. Untidy, but seems to work OK.
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Noticed the link was both cautionery and informative, thus is why I
chose to send it to you. Best of luck :)
 
R. McCarty said:
Well I have 2 SATA drives that have the following layout:

Disk 1 -- (Hitachi 40 Gigabyte)
|| C:\Win-XP----||D:\Installs-----||F:\Buffer-----||
10 Gig 10Gig 20 Gig
75% Free 80% Free 90% Free
Disk 2 -- (Hitachi 40-Gigabyte)
||E:\Archive-----|| S:\Images-----||Z:\Songs-----||
10 Gig 10 Gig 20 Gig
75% Free 75% Free 60% Free

C:\ Holds XP & 95% of Applications
D:\ Holds Installer modules, Stand-Alone Apps & D:\Program Files
which holds Streets & Trips, Google Earth, Pinball games...
Dedicated Downloads folder, all go here & are then filed.
E:\ Holds Personal Data, Mail, Pictures
**Pagefile.Sys on this partition, Min size of 256 Megabytes
F:\ Holds CD-Installers, Secondary Temp, Redirects DllCache, I386
-> Redirects keeps the XP partition smaller
Workgroup Network Share on this drive
S:\ Holds C: Drive Images, Temp Folders & Other Caches
->Cache folders include IE, Opera, Java, ZAlarm, Logging Folders
Z:\ Holds all Music modules (.Wma, using 64KByte Cluster Size)

The partitioning schema is done so that less used content exists further
onto the drive.
*S:\ has last 2 Images taken, If needed, I boot to my CD-R utilities disk
and restore from the Images Partition - Usually takes 2:00 minutes
Also have a Maxtor USB external that olds Microsoft VPC machines
and all kinds of older or unused software.
Click to expand...
Thanks a lot. Much food for thought there.
 
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