Shane, Everyone; ( how to free up disk space? )

[Rick]

lets say our systems is a server; or we have several user accounts on our system; (the C:\ is getting overloaded)

The question is; can you create or modify this program view attached? hereby enabling a right click menu on the user menu properties;

Example;     right clicking pictures folder brings up an option to move all the pictures folder to another drive or specified folder so that we can move the user accounts to another free drive?

thanks in advance

[Shane]

You can control where the profile stuff is located, you can do that via the registry under the current user and shell folders.

You can also clear up a lot of space running the disk cleanup tool and having it cleanup everything but also make sure to have it cleanup windows updates. You didnt say what version of Windows but with 7, 2008 and newer the disk cleanup can cleanup old Windows updates freeing up a good amount of space. If it is XP or 2003 you can manually remove old updates in the Windows folders, they will all be in the kbuninstall folders.

Shane

[Rick]

You can control where the profile stuff is located, you can do that via the registry under the current user and shell folders.

You can also clear up a lot of space running the disk cleanup tool and having it cleanup everything but also make sure to have it cleanup windows updates. You didnt say what version of Windows but with 7, 2008 and newer the disk cleanup can cleanup old Windows updates freeing up a good amount of space. If it is XP or 2003 you can manually remove old updates in the Windows folders, they will all be in the kbuninstall folders.

Shane

I,m using Vista on the mentioned machine; any chance to get the registry codes?

thanks in advance

[Shane]

Just posted to another user about the same spot, here is the post showing you the registry key

http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2806.msg19010.html#msg19010

Shane

[Rick]

Just posted to another user about the same spot, here is the post showing you the registry key

http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php/topic,2806.msg19010.html#msg19010

Shane

yes, thank you, pointing it to another drive and also moving it safely to free up disk space?

[Shane]

Of course, since any of the profile stuff will be store on another drive, so temp folder, pictures, emails and all that can build up fast and take a lot of space.

You should also move the page file to the other drive as well, that will free up GB's (At least as much as you have memory in the system, maybe more)

Shane

[Rick]

Of course, since any of the profile stuff will be store on another drive, so temp folder, pictures, emails and all that can build up fast and take a lot of space.

You should also move the page file to the other drive as well, that will free up GB's (At least as much as you have memory in the system, maybe more)

Shane

Yes, you are right, how to move the page file?

[Shane]

Here you go

http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

Shane

[Rick]

Here you go

http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

Shane

a tweak utility is needed...

[Rick]

Here you go

http://superuser.com/questions/237813/how-can-i-move-the-page-file-to-another-physical-disk-location

Shane

a tweak utility is needed...

Shane, after one week in review; I find that a tweak is required to enable the properties menu to allow to move to another location in the
system = D:\User\Example

MSFT would be WISE to remove the delete Option