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Kumar88 Original post #1
May 31, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Hi

a friend of mine says installing softwares in c drive will make windows slow (booting and working) and install all the stuff in other drives (a bit irritating)

i never heard such a strange thing till now. is it true???
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paranj #2
May 31, 2008 at 3:06 PM
nope. but yes if u fill the drive to brim, than yes cause HDD will take time to locate required files.
dheeraj_kumar
May 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Thats false, you can install everything in your c drive, but make sure you dont overload it as paranj said. And defragment your drives regularly.
ravi_9793
May 31, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Hi

a friend of mine says installing softwares in c drive will make windows slow (booting and working) and install all the stuff in other drives (a bit irritating)

i never heard such a strange thing till now. is it true???
Just care to defragement drives and clean them regularly. You can use cCleaner for cleaning purpose.
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paranj #5
May 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM
^^quite true indeed
Krazy_About_Technology
May 31, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Well, complete defragmentation of a drive is only possible if the drive has atleast 15% space left free. So install into your c drive till its less then 85% full. After that choose some other partition.
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Kumar88 #7
Jun 1, 2008 at 12:56 AM
of course i am aware of the space in c drive i usually have atleast 5 gb of it
Krazy_About_Technology
Jun 1, 2008 at 1:12 AM
Well thats great. Keeping an eye on your disk space is a must-do thing for any computer user. What i was saying is that windows defragmentor needs 15% of free disk space to do a full defragmentation. So counting freespace in GBs doesn't mean anything unless it equals to 15% of the total partition space, that is.