Easy way to swap drives with app installations?

[Kaido]

I have a small secondary hard drive that I'm using to run certain apps and I want to move the installed apps over to a different drive to free it up for other purposes. Is there any easy way of telling Windows that I'm moving everything installed on F:\ to G:\ ? Or is it best just to reinstall the apps?

 

[Cdeck]

there was third party software named moveapp. google it, maybe it's still alive. what i do is search and replace the location in the registry. i haven't had many problems. the occasional app may have a local config file you may have to change. uninstalling and reinstalling is, most times, easier and faster.

 

[Seeruk]

In most cases (though dependent on the app), you can everything from one drive to the other within windows, then just change the drive letters round through computer management.

Voila

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Seeruk
In most cases (though dependent on the app), you can everything from one drive to the other within windows, then just change the drive letters round through computer management.

Voila

Haha, that's a great idea, thanks!