I have an SSD drive that is nearly full and I'm looking for options to free up space. I noticed C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Temp
has several gigs of data. Is it safe to change the User environment variables %TEMP%
and %TMP%
to point somewhere else (e.g. D:\temp
, if D is my other disk with more space)?
Also what about changing the system environment variables of the same name to also point to D:\temp
?
Edit
Ideally the best answer would include a reference to an article or documentation.
I did find this documentation from Microsoft talking about making the change on an exchange server: Move Temp and TMP Directories
Best Answer
As long as you coherently manage to redirect everything, yes, it is safe.
I would suggest looking for a guide for how to do that, just to make sure you don't miss anything, although I believe what you have suggested there should be sufficient.
EDIT (for reference): From the command prompt (
cmd.exe
) (you don't need to be an administrator), typeSETX TEMP D:\Temp
and press Enter