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Thread: Can I move the AppData folder to a different drive on windows 7?

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    ohmy Can I move the AppData folder to a different drive on windows 7?

    Time is of the essence here. I installed Windows 7 onto a SSD. A friend of mine told me that a SSD can only have 10,000 rites before it's kaput. I have tried to move everything over from my old drive, but the Appdata folder, keeps having stuff written to it. On top of the writes, I only have a bit of space left on it.

    Does anyone know how I can change the location of the appdata folder without breaking my computer?

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    Re: Can I move the AppData folder to a different drive on windows 7?

    I think you have to change the location of this folder from Windows Registry. So open up Windows Registry and look for:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folder\AppData

    Provide a new location to this folder and you are done.

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