{"id":917,"date":"2012-02-27T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-02-27T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T00:29:18","slug":"moving-your-windows-installer-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Moving your Windows Installer Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moving your Windows Installer Directory<\/h3>\n

http:\/\/blog.ray1.net\/2009\/04\/moving-your-windows-installer-directory.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I mostly work with Virtual Machines and I like to pre-allocating the disk size. When I created my VM I figured 10GB would be enough for C:\\ with Win2003 Server and a couple of SDK’s and if I needed more I could always add another drive. I was wrong.<\/p>\n

After 2 years my faithful Win2003 dev VM is out of space on C: and I can’t shuffle any more files around.<\/p>\n

My C:\\windows\\installer directory is >2GB so this is my prime candidate to move. Luckily there are always solutions to problems… no I’m not going to delete the directory, or change my registry to point to a new location.
\nI’m going to add a\u00a0symbolic link<\/strong>\u00a0from C:\\windows\\installer to F:\\installer.<\/p>\n

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  1. Download Junction from\u00a0http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb896768.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Copy OR move C:\\windows\\installer to F:\\installer<\/li>\n
  3. Delete all the files in C:\\windows\\installer<\/li>\n
  4. Close all your Explorer windows<\/li>\n
  5. Run > cmd> C:\\junction C:\\WINDOWS\\Installer F:\\installer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That should do it. I wrote a batch (run.bat) script to do the whole procedure.<\/p>\n

    @set<\/span> src<\/span>=C:\\WINDOWS\\Installer<\/span>\r\n@set<\/span> trg<\/span>=F<\/span>:\\Installer<\/span>\r\n::copy<\/span> %src<\/span>%\\* %trg<\/span>%\r\n::detele<\/span> %src<\/span>%\\*\r\nmove<\/span> \/y<\/span> %src<\/span>%\\* %trg<\/span>%\r\njunction<\/span> %src<\/span>% %trg<\/span>%\r\npause<\/span><\/pre>\n
    This should work for most directories. The batch file should be in the same directory as junction.exe.<\/p><\/div>\n
    \n
    Posted by\u00a0rayone\u00a0at\u00a012:26 PM<\/abbr><\/a>\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
    Labels:\u00a0OS Configuration<\/a><\/div>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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