How to move computer programs from C drive to D drive

If you're running out of space on your C drive and you've already moved all your pictures, music, etc and still short on space, you might benefit from moving your programs. In this video I show you how to move your programs without having to uninstall and reinstall them.

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0:00 Intro
0:40 How to move apps
3:21 Summary

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[treborkeeper]

thank you for the way of explaining the move from C to D.. it was very helpful

[jcunninghamrcr]

I cant thank you enough, i thought this was going to be far beyond my abilities. Perfect fix and easy to follow.

[pinkmarkercat]

THANK YOU SO YAY!!!! Lol all the other tutorials are like "Ok now you have to press the blah blah blah and then go to the blah blah blah then right click on the thingy over here" but this tutorial was perfect!!!

[thepragmatic]

Merci Daniel. A very useful solution, it's only sad that some programs can't be moved.
As if some programs are so "arrogant" that they refuse to be moved to the (D) drive.

[zugzwang]

The explanation was clear and appeared to be helpful. Except that when I checked on the 90 apps installed on C, only one of them had a "Move" button that was not greyed out. All but about 5 were manufacturer (Dell) or Microsoft original factory installations. So the only option appears to be some mixture of uninstalling altogether (but how to be sure some peripheral-seeming app is not central?) or persuading the apps to allow installation somewhere other than the C-drive.

[laDbugx]

This was so incredibly helpful and simple, thank you!!!!

[visualtale]

Thank you ver much, this is what I needed to know.

[SahilThorat]

Thank you sir here is your new subscriber from 🇮🇳India🇮🇳 your explanation is very good direct to point 🤗 thanks 🤗

[garybrenner]

Thanks for the video... very helpful! My only question is how to reinstall on a different drive after uninstalling it on the orig. drive? Thanks again!

[lukijanox]

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH THIS REALLY HELPED ME

[SnowWalker]

I would like to ask a simple question that you may or may not know the answer to. Google doesn't seem to understand the question, lol.
My question is this:
I play large video games which obviously take up a lot of space on the C-drive so I've installed a large D-drive to install all of the games on, freeing up a lot of space on the C-drive.
Having done that, now I would like to either move or reinstall the game launchers like Steam and EA and GOG on the D-drive as well.
Do you know if doing that would be a problem in the long run or should I leave those programs installed to the C-drive?

[engr.kadooor]

thank you sir very helpful, new subscriber here from Philipines \m/

[j.ciloafasho]

I use my laptop for music production. I have a C: 87% filled with all pertinent material, but I also have a D: That holds 930GB thats only 3% full with basic info. Would merging the drive be a better option or trying to move them like you're showing here? Do you have a video on this?

[darklevi]

Do you know how i can move videos and photos? good video!

[Michiexoxo]

thank you so much ! does it improve the speed of the application ?

[pok]

how do you move the photos and videos??? like i moved it but the storage didnt move?

[pnemesis]

Hey man, theres a FOLDER on my pc called WINDOWS. its taking up 28 gb on my C DISK. I wish to move it to the E drive (SSD). May i know how to move a FOLDER (windows) to the E drive? Is that possible?

[chenyu]

What about the program files and program files(x86) stored in C drive? Need to transfer them to the new drive too??

[ES-lxvv]

Hey, i changed downloads folder from c to e drive, now I can't undo it cause there's no location tab in properties.
Been searching for some answers now.
Any advice?