Move your Temps to another Drive - How To

[Batwing~SPARTA~]

Durka was interested in this and i thought it could be interesting for others as well.

 

If you are using an SSD you may consider to move your Temp Folders to the Storage drive to avoid wasting room on your small SSD.

 

Actually there are 3 forms of Temps you wanna move: 2 for Windows and 1 for Internet Explorer. If you use a different browser then you will have Temp or Cache folders for that one too. Refer to the Browser documentation to figure out how to move it.

 

TO MOVE WIN 7 TEMP FOLDERS:

 

- Create a folder on D: (or whatever other drive) and call it Temp

- From Start Orb, right click Computer and get Properties

- Left end side, click on Advanced System Settings

- Click botton Environment Variables

- Upper box you see 2 Temp variables (Temp and Tmp), select one and click Edit

- On Value put the path to the new Temp folder you created (as D:\temp) and lick OK

- Do it again for the other temp value, moving to the same Temp folder

- Click OK to confirm everything, OK till closing all windows and then REBOOT

 

TO MOVE TEMP INTERNET FOLDER:

 

- Click on Options and choose Internet Option

- on Browsing History click on Settings

- Click on Move Folder and choose the Temp folder you already created earlier and you used for the other temps

- Click OK as many times you need to close all windos - RESTART IE

 

OTHER OPTIONAL SETTINGS:

 

You may consider to check your Allocated space on C for System Restore. By default it uses a awful amount of space, I would suggest to reduce it at 1 or 2%.

 

- From Start Orb, right click Computer and get Properties

- Left end side, click on System protection

- Click on Configure and adjust value

- Clik OK as needed to close all windows - REBOOT

[Durka-Durka~SPARTA~]

Thanks Batwing!