How to Relocate a folder ?

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can someone tell me how you Relocate a folder in Vista? any folder ?

say i make a New Folder then right click , Properties , but then theres not Location tab ????

i want to relocate folders from my C drive ( OS DRIVE that is now FULL and causing my pc to run slow, i dont know why its full as i have installed Everything other than my OS on my D drive) To my d Drive.

ive relocated my pictures, my videos my music folders fine, but the others dont have a location tab?

Thanks
 
bob055 said:
can someone tell me how you Relocate a folder in Vista? any folder ?

say i make a New Folder then right click , Properties , but then theres not Location tab ????

i want to relocate folders from my C drive ( OS DRIVE that is now FULL and causing my pc to run slow, i dont know why its full as i have installed Everything other than my OS on my D drive) To my d Drive.

ive relocated my pictures, my videos my music folders fine, but the others dont have a location tab?

Thanks
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Use the mklink command at a command prompt.

eg. mklink "C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Red Orchestra" "D:\SteamSpare\Red Orchestra"

Make sure you copy the contents to the folder you want to move to before running mklink.
 
program files, the folders in there from my C drive to my D Drive. See the thing is ive installed everything on my D Drive but some programs have created folders and files on the C drive why ?? they shouldnt.

my C drive is Pretty much FULL. its a 30Gb SSD and i only want it for my OS.
 
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see it says theres only 25.1GB used but theres only 978mb left of a 29.8GB Drive ?

everytime i install something on my D drive it seems to install something on the the C Drive aswell.

Might have to Install my OS on my Samsung 1TB drive and games on the SSD do you think ???

I thought this would work alright, OS on the SSD but its not!
 
it doesn't install anything on your C drive when installing on the D drive, Microsoft puts all the data used for the installation in a temporary Folder (called Application Data) while installing. If there isn't enough space for it to do this it will error out generally, or take a hissy fit in typical vista fashion. Your best bet is to create a folder on the d drive with some kind of appropriate name (e.g. D:\AppData) then regedit the path of Application Data folder to there. I did this for my whole profile when installing XP on an EEEPC, just regedit the paths to the new drive.
 
Kriist said:
it doesn't install anything on your C drive when installing on the D drive, Microsoft puts all the data used for the installation in a temporary Folder (called Application Data) while installing. If there isn't enough space for it to do this it will error out generally, or take a hissy fit in typical vista fashion. Your best bet is to create a folder on the d drive with some kind of appropriate name (e.g. D:\AppData) then regedit the path of Application Data folder to there. I did this for my whole profile when installing XP on an EEEPC, just regedit the paths to the new drive.
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that sounds Great! but how do i do that! sorry im a noob!

start run regedit .........
 
bob055 said:
that sounds Great! but how do i do that! sorry im a noob!

start run regedit .........
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FIRST TAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE DOING ANYTHING

While regedit is open, File -> Export

Well assuming that you wanting to relocate Program Files folder which would free up most space, you would do the following...

Copy Program Files folder from C:\ to D:\ so you end up with D:\Program Files

Open Regedit by going "Start ->(run)-> Regedit"

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

locate "ProgramFilesDir" registry and change the value from "C:\Program Files" to "D:\Program Files".

However, I'm unsure whether that will then filter down to all other Registries that use Program Files folder. I didn't get any strange things happening.
 
UKDTweak said:
Have you moved your page file to the other drive, this will be taking some of your free space on the SSD?
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i havent no, how do i do this ??

Kriist said:

FIRST TAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE DOING ANYTHING

While regedit is open, File -> Export

Well assuming that you wanting to relocate Program Files folder which would free up most space, you would do the following...

Copy Program Files folder from C:\ to D:\ so you end up with D:\Program Files

Open Regedit by going "Start ->(run)-> Regedit"

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

locate "ProgramFilesDir" registry and change the value from "C:\Program Files" to "D:\Program Files".

However, I'm unsure whether that will then filter down to all other Registries that use Program Files folder. I didn't get any strange things happening.
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Thanks ^^^ :P

i navigated to here HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

but there no ProgramFilesDir in there ???
 
Thats actually a fairly idiot proof guide, read through it slowly and you will understand a lot better what is happening and how you are doing it.
 
Kriist said:
Thats actually a fairly idiot proof guide, read through it slowly and you will understand a lot better what is happening and how you are doing it.
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hahah, yea ive done it now. 5.77GB Free on my SSD drive now.

it will proberly fill up slowly installing programs i would think tho. see how it goes!

Thanks for you Help dude!!!
 
no problemo, was really UDKTweak

just realised that regedit crap is for XP ^^ never done it on vista before.
 
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