relocate applications on C: Drive to D: Drive

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on XP home edition I am trying to relocate existing applications on C: Drive
and put them on D: Drive to utilize the memory there. Can you explain to me
just how to go about doing this? Thanks
 
reese said:
on XP home edition I am trying to relocate existing applications on
C: Drive and put them on D: Drive to utilize the memory there. Can
you explain to me just how to go about doing this? Thanks
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In general you can not move programs from one drive to another. The problem
is that almost all programs are not simply a single file or even a bunch of
files. Besides the files that constitute them, they also have, and need,
many entries referring to them and where they are located--in the registry
and elsewhere.

So if you try to move a program, those pointers will all be wrong and the
program won't work. There is software that purports to find and change those
pointers (for example, the freeware COA2.exe) but in my experience these
don't always work perfectly. It's much better and safer to uninstall from
its existing location, and reinstall in the new one.
 
Your solution is Redirect/Relocate Program files folder and move the files
manually from old one to new. The problem is >not all pointers in registry
or in program use the variable [that is changed by redirecting], many
things and in many place, the exeact path will be listed. SO if you do
this, there is high chance that the application will not work. So i am not
giving you any method.

And for the future, if you manage to found an application that can do this,
i highly recommend that you dont do this and if you do please Reinstall you
Anti-Virus, Firewall and these type of things again.

--
Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
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: on XP home edition I am trying to relocate existing applications on C:
Drive
: and put them on D: Drive to utilize the memory there. Can you explain to
me
: just how to go about doing this? Thanks
 
Uninstall from Drive/Partition C, then reinstall to D. Do not dream that
you do it another way.
 
reese said:
on XP home edition I am trying to relocate existing applications on C:
Drive and put them on D: Drive to utilize the memory there. Can you
explain to me just how to go about doing this? Thanks
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If you had to install them to run them, and it wasn't just a drag and drop
installation, you'll need to uninstall the software, and reinstall it on
the other drive to use the hard drive space there.

Note that hard drives aren't a vessel for memory, but disk space.
 
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