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I use a 120gb SSD for my OS; Windows 7, and I have a 2tb HDD which I try to use for everything else. My PC is about 2 years old and slowly over time my SSD has become full, I was always able to just make a little space for it, but recently it has become jam packed. I tried doing the simple disk cleanup, but that only gets me under 100mb of excess space. I then looked into the program files section of my ssd and which is odd because I have 2 folders for it; a (Program Files) and a (Program Files x86). Opening them up it seems they are virtually identical.
I'm no expert on this, but what I've tried thus far is dragging the folder Program Files from my C: drive into my D: drive. I'm assuming this is a very improper way to do this, so I've never fully committed to doing it. The plan was to drag the folder into the d: drive, then delete the folder in the c: drive.
However I have tried deleting random folders in my program files of my c: drive and I keep getting an error that reads "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program". This happens with virtually every file I try to delete in the program files. I know that the program files folder contains over 20gb of programs, even though I try to stop programs from installing onto my c: drive.
Whenever I install a program, it always tries to place the main folder in the c: drive and it doesn't give me an option to place it in the d: drive until after the installer program is already in a file on the c: drive.
I know this thread is all over the place, but I've described my situation to the best of my ability. It's gotten to the point where I can't even update my windows, or any other apps for that matter. Please help
I'm no expert on this, but what I've tried thus far is dragging the folder Program Files from my C: drive into my D: drive. I'm assuming this is a very improper way to do this, so I've never fully committed to doing it. The plan was to drag the folder into the d: drive, then delete the folder in the c: drive.
However I have tried deleting random folders in my program files of my c: drive and I keep getting an error that reads "The action can't be completed because the folder or a file in it is open in another program". This happens with virtually every file I try to delete in the program files. I know that the program files folder contains over 20gb of programs, even though I try to stop programs from installing onto my c: drive.
Whenever I install a program, it always tries to place the main folder in the c: drive and it doesn't give me an option to place it in the d: drive until after the installer program is already in a file on the c: drive.
I know this thread is all over the place, but I've described my situation to the best of my ability. It's gotten to the point where I can't even update my windows, or any other apps for that matter. Please help
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