{"id":1883,"date":"2016-09-10T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2016-09-10T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T17:55:30","slug":"moving-the-cwindowsinstaller-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"Moving the C:\\WINDOWS\\INSTALLER Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mbccs.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/moving-cwindowsinstaller-directory.html\">Moving the C:\\WINDOWS\\INSTALLER Directory<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header-line-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body\">\n<p>Often servers or workstations will run low of disk space on the system partition.\u00a0 This is especially true I\u2019ve found with older Dell servers that shipped with a 12GB system partition.<\/p>\n<p>The c:\\windows\\installer directory often occupies several gigabytes of storage.<\/p>\n<p>While Windows does not provide a mechanism to re-point this directory via the registry, you can use NTFS junctions\/reparse points to re-point the directory to a different local volume.\u00a0 Re-pointing to UNC paths is not supported.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Obtain junction.exe from<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb896768.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb896768.aspx<\/a>\n<p>I found it handy to add the executable to c:\\windows\\system32 for easy access<\/li>\n<li>Create the destination Installer folder on the new volume (ie: D:\\Installer)<\/li>\n<li>Move all content from c:\\windows\\installer to your new directory<\/li>\n<li>Make sure to close any explorer windows with these folders opened.\u00a0 Junction.exe requires that there are no open file handles to these directories<\/li>\n<li>Create the junction\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">junction.exe c:\\windows\\installer d:\\installer<\/span><\/li>\n<li>You have to delete\/rename the c:\\windows\\installer folder<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving the C:\\WINDOWS\\INSTALLER Directory Often servers or workstations will run low of disk space on the system partition.\u00a0 This is especially true I\u2019ve found with older Dell servers that shipped with a 12GB system partition. The c:\\windows\\installer directory often occupies &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=1883\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}