Switch C: drive with D: drive and move Program Files

Hi, CaptJDC. I'm Robinson, and I’m happy to help you today.

It's not recommended to move the folders "Program Files", "Program Files(x86)", and "Program Data" to another drive, most programs use the C: as the default path to work properly. Changing these folders to another drive will make most of your software stop working.

The folders Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, and Videos you can move without problems.

Step 1: Create the folder on the drive D:

1-Open the File Explorer

2-Click on "This PC" and open the "Local disk D:"

3-Create the folders Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, and Videos

Step 2: Move the folders to the new location

1-Open the File Explorer

2-Right-click on the "Documents" folder and click on properties

3-Click on the "Location" tab

4-Click on "Move..." and select the "Documents" folder on drive D and click on Ok

5-You will be asked if you want to move the files to the new location, click on "Yes" to confirm

6-Repeat this procedure for the other folders

To identify which files taking more space on your drive C:, you can an app called TreeSize Free from the Microsoft Store.

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/treesiz...

I hope this information helps. If you have any questions, please let me know and I'll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you. I realized that. It was an initial bad design by HP. I cannot understand why they made the SSD drive the C: drive. I loaded all the programs as the default installations and all of them loaded in the C: drive. After I realized that I tried to load them in the D: drive, however in some like Quicken, I could not change the drive.

Most manufacturers do this to minimize costs, they use a low space SSD which is a bit more expensive as the main drive to speed up the Windows boot and a larger HDD which is cheaper and slower as a secondary drive.

If you need to use bigger softwares that are taking up too much storage on the drive C:, may need to think on purchase a bigger SSD to replace it.

How about choosing, at the time of every APP. installation, a drive known to have sufficient disk_space rather than using the default of Program Files (and variants) under the default drive C:

vis-à-vis RobinsonSilvestre's statement "most programs use the C: as the default path to work properly" - don't most software app's use "Relative" pathnames or is there something hard-wired to C:\ in Win1x registry settings ?

Thank you. I solved the problem by substituting the small SSD drive with a bigger one.

But the problem was that some programs that I loaded did not give me a choice of selecting a drive, they automatically loaded to C: ,