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I've got this really annoying setup on my laptop, where I've got a teeny little 128 GB SSD for my system drive, and a really generous 1TB HDD. Which does me no freakin' good when a whole bunch of applications insist on being installed on the C drive. So now, with 5GB left on my SSD, I did a disk analysis with WinDirStat and found:
- 16.6 GB in
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore - 15.8 GB in
C:\Program Files (x86) - 15.4 GB in
C:\Program Files
I would dearly love to move all of the above onto my D drive, and make a junction using mklink so that all future apps that try to force themselves onto my miniscule SSD get ju-jitsu'd onto the D drive.
BUT...is it safe, or even possible, to do so?
The Program Files folders don't appear to allow deletion or renaming (at least, not through the front door). I know I could do each app independently, but that's a lot of effort; I'd rather do everything in one fell swoop. And I don't know enough about that DriverStore folder to feel confident that moving it onto the D drive won't cause damage.
Advice, please?
Shaul Behr
Posted 2019-02-03T09:56:54.337
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– lx07 – 2019-02-03T11:52:49.423DriverStoreseems extremely excessive. Try Driver Store Explorer and see if you can just delete some.@lx07 Thanks for the tip. I downloaded it, but I only managed to clean up about 800 MB of old drivers. Nvidia is the guilty party here; it's hogging nearly 15GB by itself. – Shaul Behr – 2019-02-03T12:20:39.633