Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tech-torial for you.
This time on how to move programs from your C drive to the D drive.
If you're running out of space on the C drive on your computer and you
have a second drive most likely labeled as D and you want to
move stuff to free up the storage space on
your C drive, you can easily move your documents,
pictures, music, and that sort of thing, but what
about programs? Rather than uninstall them and then
reinstall them on the other drive, you can move some of the programs.
So you would get to that by right clicking on your start button in windows 10
and going to Apps and Features. You'll get the list of programs that
you have currently installed. As you scroll through the list
you'll be able to see the programs and how much storage space they're taking up.
As you click on each one You'll have options
and they vary for some of the programs. In this one for example we'll see
there's a modify and uninstall. They'll all have the ability
usually to uninstall. Almost every time with some exceptions
but not all of them are allowed to modify. This one here
we could modify, so that would include doing a repair
installation of it rather than uninstall and reinstall
but we want to find an option to move. So looking through some of these,
this one here has an option to move but
it's grayed out and we can't do it. So not all of them will allow you to move
so you'd have to see which ones you can move.
This one for instance is very small it's only 72 kb
so it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway
but I want to look down here there's Asphalt 9 legends is 2.5GB
of storage space and if I click on it I do have the option to move
so i'm going to click on that and it tells me where it's currently installed
it's the C drive and I can choose what drive letter I want to move it to
So if I had more than one I could click in the drop down menu and select another
drive by default I only have one so it's
choosing that second drive so I'll go and hit move
it now shows that it's actually moving it and there's a little progress bar
going along showing that it's moving.
So this will take varying amounts of time depending on the speed of your
computer and the size of the program that you're moving
this one here is one of the larger programs with the amount of data
it has connected to it but I do have it running on a fast computer
so it's now done and it just minimizes back to its normal view like this
So if I click on it once more I can go to move again
and now it tells me the app is currently installed on my D drive
and I have the option of moving it back to C
which I don't want to do. So there's no close button here if I just want to get
out of here, just click off to the side somewhere and that'll go away.
and that's all there is to moving programs
from the C drive to the D drive.
If you have some other ones that you want to move
and they do not give you the option to move it, you would have to uninstall
those programs and reinstall them again
but looking at the size you can see which ones would actually make
much of a difference. So KB is nothing really.
MB you're starting to get there if it's up in the hundreds of MB
but definitely when you get into GB
that could make a big difference for you.
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