Oh definitely - I'm pointing to that first, but want to be prepared in case
that isn't enough.

And they are domain admin accounts, FWIW.

Thanks,

Jonathan

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:

> 1.3 GB in user profiles.  As in users that logon locally to the machine?
> Admins?
> Tell them to clean 'em up and blow 'em away.
> Otherwise, relocate the user profiles to another drive if they're actual
> users' profiles.
>
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I agree that it isn't the BEST fix -- the best fix would involve fdisk
>> --> format --> reinstall windows.
>>
>> The predicament is that the C:\ drive is only 11 Gigs in the first
>> place... There's 1.3 Gigs of space tied up in user profiles, and that is my
>> first plan of attack, but other than that, my only large directories/files
>> are under:
>>
>> C:\Windows
>> C:\Program Files
>> C:\Program Files (x86)
>>
>> Thoughts on why it wouldn't be a good idea? With a junction, the OS thinks
>> it is still going to the same place, doesn't it?
>>
>> JR
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think it's a good idea.  I used to play with those folders in
>>> years gone by, but it's going to be worth far more in the long-term to fix
>>> this problem in a different way, IMO.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've got a Windows 2003 server with a system root that is way
>>>> undersized...
>>>>
>>>> I've used Sysinternals Junction to move other directories on Server 2003
>>>> from C:\ to another local drive on the machine, but have any of you used it
>>>> to move C:\Program Files and/or C:\ProgramFiles (x86) on Server 2003 to an
>>>> alternate local drive with success? I'm assuming the actual rename and
>>>> ultimate deletion of the original "Program Files" folder would need to be
>>>> done under safe mode, if this is even possible.
>>>>
>>>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>> --
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>>>>
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