It only saves the most recent restore point. You go to Windows Disk Cleanup/More Options/System Restore and Shadow Copies/Cleanup. The subprograms in the Windows OS program know to look for its apps in C.Īlso, if you are running out of disk space, you can remove unneeded backups with Windows Disk Cleanup. They are fine with you changing the path to D. That just doesn't work. This does not apply to any preinstalled Windows apps. You can't have some installed to one and some installed to the other. So, all apps need to be installed to the C drive or all apps need to be installed to the D drive with the exception of apps that ask you where you want them installed.
You have to realize that anything that you already installed to C is looking for the C path. You will need to uninstall these before changing the path then reinstall them after you have changed the path because they will then install to the D drive. The files in my C drive are now only small files though.Īgain, if you don't do it correctly, anything that you already installed to the C drive will not have the correct path. This has not caused any issues with my laptop but I see that some apps still installed certain files to the C:\Program Files (x86) folder.
Supposedly, you only need to change the ProgramFilesDir and ProgramFilesDir(x86) but I changed all of them to D because I also wanted my common files on D instead of C. In RegEdit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\Windows\CurrentVersion. Just keep track of what you uninstalled so that you can reinstall them after you make D the install disk. The best app to uninstall them is the free version of Revo Uninstaller.
It isn't a hard fix unless you have a lot of apps installed to your C drive but if you are running out of space on your C drive, I recommend that you unistall anything that you installed on the C drive anyway to reduce disk space and before you make the changes that I will tell you about. Hopefully, you are running Windows because this is based on Windows 10.
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