On Windows 7, recovery drive (D) filling

Hi people,

I just installed Windows 7 on a Dell inspiron laptop 1521. Although there are a lot of disk space on drive C, drive D (the recovery drive) has a red horizontal bar appear almost everywhere. Although it is a recovery of 10Gig drive he says that there is only 397MB left.

Some ants software reason I install gets directed to the D drive, and all the files get directed it. I just tried to download I Tunes and it fails as part of the program is directed to the D drive, but there is not enough space!

In addition, the system seems to run pretty fast and smooth. It's just this recovery disk D clutter. I hope someone can help.

All the best,
John

Hi John,.

Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site.

Here's a work around to change the installation path by default for applications of the D: drive to the C: drive or which will drive you want from the registry.

Important: this message contains information about how to edit the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you edit it. Make sure you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Back up the registry

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-the-registry

To access the Registry Editor:

  1. Click Start and type regedit in the search field.
  2. In the list, click on regedit programs.
  3. Navigate to the following location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
  4. Now search for a key in the right pane called ProgramFilesDir.

You should see that the value of something as D: \Program Files.

5 double-click on the value and change it to what you want, for example: C:\Program Files. From then on, whenever you install a new program, Windows will use the new location in the default installation directory.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards

Shinmila H - Microsoft Support

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