[arleitiss]

Hey, I am using 60GB intel 520 Series SSD for my system drive. All I have installed there is Win 7 x64, 3ds max, photoshop. That's it. Temporary data fucks everything up, also all videos I watch go there. Is there any way to redirect temporary directory? So it goes say to one of the 4 hdd's I have?

[Freaks32]

Go to the start menu and type "Advanced System Settings" and hit enter.
From there click "Environment Variables" and under System Variables change TEMP and TMP to another directory.

[arleitiss]

it says %USERPROFILE% do I just replace it with my drive letter L: ?

Edited:

like if it says %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp
Would be L:\AppData\Local\Temp

[1solidsnake2]

arleitiss posted:

it says %USERPROFILE% do I just replace it with my drive letter L: ?

Edited:

like if it says %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp
Would be L:\AppData\Local\Temp

Or whatever folder you want.

For example: L:\SystemTemp

I would suggest creating the folders beforehand.


You can also move the Firefox cache: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...another-drive/

Plus to see which big files are hogging up your space: http://windirstat.info/

[arleitiss]

1solidsnake2 posted:

Or whatever folder you want.

For example: L:\SystemTemp

I would suggest creating the folders beforehand.


You can also move the Firefox cache: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...another-drive/

Plus to see which big files are hogging up your space: http://windirstat.info/

Thank you for that tool!
Apparently I have 7.8 GB used for Risen 2 saves. Wtf like.

Edited:

What is pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys ? they are 5 gb each...

[Kialtia]

When you enter hybernation mode on your computer it stores all your RAM in hiberfil.sys, hybernation can be disabled by typing this in a command prompt with admin access (This also removes the hyberfil.sys after a reboot) :

powercfc /h off

pagefile.sys is basicly a RAM overload, when your RAM is full it starts filling that file, this file can be moved/shrinked/removed, go to the properties of "Computer", press "Advanced system settings" on the left, under the tab "Advanced" press "Settings" under "Performance", go to the tab "Advanced" and under "Virtual Memory" press "Change".

[arleitiss]

Kialtia posted:

When you enter hybernation mode on your computer it stores all your RAM in hiberfil.sys, hybernation can be disabled by typing this in a command prompt with admin access (This also removes the hyberfil.sys after a reboot) :

powercfc /h off

pagefile.sys is basicly a RAM overload, when your RAM is full it starts filling that file, this file can be moved/shrinked/removed, go to the properties of "Computer", press "Advanced system settings" on the left, under the tab "Advanced" press "Settings" under "Performance", go to the tab "Advanced" and under "Virtual Memory" press "Change".

I never hybernate my pc, I always turn it off. But well hard drives turn off after 15 min of afk.

[Tucan Sam]

turn off pagefile or put it on another drive

[12voltsdc]

Start>run>%temp% Delete all your temporary files, Run a disk cleanup.

[gparent]

I have temps files set to my SSD at the moment and it definitely does not fuck anything up. Something else might be wrong with your drive if it is slow.

[Coridan]

Also, see this: http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f128/s...-guide-236563/