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    How Windows 10 achieves its compact footprint

    Windows devices can be lightweight and highly mobile, yet, when you need it, have the full capabilities of the Windows OS. The Windows Storage and Deployment Teams, the people who bring modern storage APIs, Storage Sense, setup, and servicing to your phone, tablet, laptop, and desktop would like...
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    Windows Vista System Volume Information - Hard drive full of files

    Hey folks. I've tried to find a solution to this problem elsewhere but have still found no satisfactory solution. My C drive is 500 Gb, of which 457 are available to use. The folders I have on the C drive total less than 200 Gb, but the drive shows only 40.4 Gb free. When using Tree Size it...
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    Managing Your Server's Boot Drive

    Came across this guide & FAQ which may be of some help to those running servers. CONTENTS: Introduction What's Too Small? But What About Upgrading? What To Move? Pagefile Exchange Databases SQL Databases Other Data Files Log Files Webs and Other IIS...
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    Windows 7 Keeping a fixed drive letter for a mobile pone

    Keeping a fixed drive letter for a mobile phone For over a year, I have been connecting my Android phone to my laptop with USB so that I can sync certain files. The software I use needs to be told where to sync to, and until recently this was always drive I when the phone was connected...
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    Windows 7 Glary Utilities empty folders finder

    Hi all, I used Glary Utilities empty folders finder and found a whole bunch of empty folders, I was wondering can I just delete all of them or should I just leave them where they are? Thanks, Frank
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    Windows 7 Changing default save locations for everything

    Good afternoon Summary: How to I change the default save location of any saved file from C drive to D drive? How to delete current user and program folders on my C drive? Info: I am trying to tidy up my computer and need some assistance with default save locations. I have 2 drives, A 60gb...
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    Windows 7 Problems with hard drive allocation - no space on C drive but can't install to D drive

    Hello and thanks in advance for your help, I have a Gateway desktop with two disk drives, C and D. I have been getting a message for quite awhile that I am running out of space on C. So I now try to download any software to the D drive, as there is over 900 GB of space on there. I have...
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    Moving TEMP/TMP folder from SSD to Hard Drive other than root directory

    Hi All, I'm in the process of tweaking my Windows 7 installation on my new build. I want to move the temp folder off my 120 GB SSD and onto my 1 TB Hard Drive. My question is, can I place the TEMP folder within a nested folder and not at root? I don't want to see the TEMP folder every time I...
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    Windows 7 I have decided to buy an SSD

    Link Removed It will allow me to do demanding things with less overhead . Less heat while converting videos to dvd . It is not that large 64GB but plenty large to run the software and system I intend to use . I will have standard hard drives for the more mundane backup tasks :) Now just a few...
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    Windows 7 installed windows 7 on E drive instead of c. no space now!

    hello i had windows 7 ready to install into my C drive and over vista, but had not enough space required for the install and couldnt remove any files/programs etc because the major space factor on c drive was mainly in the winxsx file which i understand should NOT be touched! so the only...
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