Computer question?

[jayjie15]

Hello, I have an older Sony Vaio desktop. It has a partioned hard drive where about 15gb makes up the C drive and the other 105gb makes up the D drive. For some odd reason my music is on the D drive for obvious reasons, but my itunes library is on the C drive which uses almost all of it. I have hardly any programs on my computer minus office and a couple of antivirus and spyware programs. With this being said I have only about 252mb of freespace on the C drive. I have ran the disk cleaner and all that good stuff. I have went through and deleted all my unused programs. I guess my question is what else can I do and is there any way to allow more space to be used for my C drive? My D drive has like 90gb of free space.

[chrisknight]

Acronis disk director?

[Casper]

Just move your iTunes library to the D drive.

http://www.macworld.com/article/46248/2005/08/shiftitunes.html

[jblosser]

If after moving iTunes as Casper linked you still would like more free space, you can move your swap file to the D:\ volume, here's how:

(Assuming this is XP, Vista will be about the same)

Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance (or System, depending on if you're in XP style or old style).

Once in the System applet, click Advanced, then Settings in the Performance section.

Now click the Advanced tab, then in the Virtual Memory section click Change.

In the Drive / Volume Label pull-down, click it and change it from C:\ to D:\.

OPTIONAL: Take a look at what the "recommended" amount of swap space is and then click Custom and set the minimum and maximum both to that size.

Click OK until you get the "it's time to reboot" message, and say OK to that.

Once it comes back up, your swap file will be off of C: and on D:, saving you around 2GB of space, give or take.

[jayjie15]

Thanks guys. I am not wise to the whole itunes thing. I was used to having a drag and drop flash mp3 player. So even though my music folder is on the D drive it is still going to show on the C drive because the music is in my itunes library?

[jblosser]

Thanks guys. I am not wise to the whole itunes thing. I was used to having a drag and drop flash mp3 player. So even though my music folder is on the D drive it is still going to show on the C drive because the music is in my itunes library?

Depends upon where the music files themselves are located.

The program itself is <probably> at C:\program files\apple....

If, as in Casper's link above, you go into iTunes and select Edit, Preferences, Advanced, Change you'll be able to see where the music is (c:\ or d:\ ).

Windows gives you a My Music folder inside your My Documents folder. This has nothing to do with iTunes. Two separate things. You could move your iTunes music into My Music if you wanted to.

[jayjie15]

Thanks guys, did the recs from both jblosser and casper and free'd up about 3gb worth of space. I don't really understand how I have nearly 15gb filled up ont he C drive though. The only programs to speak of that are on there are adobe, office pro, and itunes. All my porn and music is on the D: drive.

[SWing'R]

Just move your iTunes library to the D drive.

Thats what i was thinking but that seemed abit to obvious

[jblosser]

Thanks guys, did the recs from both jblosser and casper and free'd up about 3gb worth of space. I don't really understand how I have nearly 15gb filled up ont he C drive though. The only programs to speak of that are on there are adobe, office pro, and itunes. All my porn and music is on the D: drive.

Two programs, both free (as in beer) to show what's consuming space:

WinDirStat http://windirstat.info

TreeSize (free edition): http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

They will sort the directories on your C:\ volume (and D:\, and any other attached drives) by the size of the directories.