Changing Windows TEMP Location
I found myself with a hard drive failure from last year so my windows drive only had 40gb of space total, with my other drives having 160gb of space. The problem is my Windows drive (C: Drive) became full with consistently less than 600mb of free space, I was at the point where I couldn’t install programs as they would unpack in TEMP and fill up my drive crashing the install.
So I realized I had to change my TEMP locations so that installer packages and programs would write temporary files to another location.
To do this on Windows Vista you follow these simple instructions:
- Right click on your “Computer” icon
- Click on Advanced System Settings
- (Acknowledge the popup with permissions)
- Click on the “Advanced” Tab
- Click on “Environment Variables”
- Then you change the 4 environment variables highlighted below (TMP, TEMP for both system and user variables)
Reboot your Windows VISTA as some processes won’t take effect immediately.
This should now write all of your temporary files to the location that you specify and is the perfect solution if your C: drive is running out of disk space, but you have plenty of space on another drive.
-Dragon Blogger
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