C Drive Space

Step 1 – Find culprit folders that occupy the most disk space!

• C:\Windows\Installer – Over 3GB, program installers that can be moved safely and easily.
• C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google – About 0.8GB, Google products data such as those by Chrome.
• C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla – About 1.6GB, Firefox profiles and browser data.

Step 2 – Copy these folders to another drive that is much more spacious!

This one is easy. Just perform the omnipotent Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combination to copy these folders to another drive. In this example, we’ll copy these folders to their new destination – D:\C_DRIVE:

• C:\Windows\Installer –> D:\C_DRIVE\Windows\Installer
• C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google –> D:\C_DRIVE\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google
• C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla –> D:\C_DRIVE\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla

Step 3 – Delete original folders and create the symbolic links

rmdir /s /q C:\Windows\Installer

rmdir /s /q C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google

rmdir /s /q C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla

Now that the original folders are deleted, we’ll make symbolic links in the same name so that any requests for these folders are correctly diverted to those on the D drive:

mklink /D C:\Windows\Installer D:\C_DRIVE\Windows\Installer

mklink /D C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google D:\C_DRIVE\Users\Administrator\AppData\Google

mklink /D C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla D:\C_DRIVE\Users\Administrator\AppData\Mozilla