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Hello,

I have bought a new laptop a while ago, I have now installed some programs and games and I realized that the 128Gb SSD is nearly filled. I have my OS (windows 8) and Users and some games on the SSD. I want to move Users from the SSD to the HDD.
How do I do this in the easiest and safest way?

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks!
 
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Should help:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html

Have you also:
.. disabled hibernation (save approx SSD space equal to RAM
.. Set Min and max for page file to the same value. Fot 4 hih systems set min and max both to 2048 this save approx 4 gigs of SSD space (with 8 gigs of ram set min/max both to 1024 mb, saves approx 15 gigs.
.. Limit the size of restore folder. This can be upto 10% of drive. Each restor Point is 300 mbs, so JUST 20 restore points = 6 gig of SSD space. Limit size to 1.5 gigs which allows for 5 most recent restore points.
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Should help:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html

Have you also:
.. disabled hibernation (save approx SSD space equal to RAM
.. Set Min and max for page file to the same value. Fot 4 hih systems set min and max both to 2048 this save approx 4 gigs of SSD space (with 8 gigs of ram set min/max both to 1024 mb, saves approx 15 gigs.
.. Limit the size of restore folder. This can be upto 10% of drive. Each restor Point is 300 mbs, so JUST 20 restore points = 6 gig of SSD space. Limit size to 1.5 gigs which allows for 5 most recent restore points.
 
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What exactly happens if I follow these (not that it saves space, but like does it hurt my performance or anything else?) :
Have you also:
.. disabled hibernation (save approx SSD space equal to RAM
.. Set Min and max for page file to the same value. Fot 4 hih systems set min and max both to 2048 this save approx 4 gigs of SSD space (with 8 gigs of ram set min/max both to 1024 mb, saves approx 15 gigs.
.. Limit the size of restore folder. This can be upto 10% of drive. Each restor Point is 300 mbs, so JUST 20 restore points = 6 gig of SSD space. Limit size to 1.5 gigs which allows for 5 most recent restore points.

Thanks for the help!
 
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Performance wise any file that you access from the My Documents folder performance will be dependent on if On SSD or HDD. That said How much of a performance hit you would take by moving it to the HDD would be between Not even tell the diff -> slight delay in loading that file. Personally, I didn't really notice a diff.

Hibernation was great when HDDs to "minutes" to bootup, with a SSD only taking seconds to boot, not much savings. This is also offset by the DECREASED writes to the SSD everytime it went into hibernation.

Page file, if Moved to the HDD (with setting the MIn/max to the same size) will cause some performance hit, But probably very little as this is normally done in the background. The object here is have enough physical RAM that read/writes to the page file are few and far between. With setting the min/max to 1024 mbs it does not even need to be moved to the HHD.
Limiting the size of the restore folder has No effect on performance. Myself I just disable it.
 
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