What should I move from C to D drive to speed up PC

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danwednesday

Hi,


I have a Dell PC which is about 2 years old. It's decent spec, but has started to slow down considerably over the past couple of months. I was looking around for things to speed it up (e.g disc-clean-up, defrag etc) and noticed, rather naively, that the C drive (which is a HDD) is over half full, whereas there's a whole 1TB SSD D drive that is almost completely empty.


I don't remember doing anything at set-up stage to dictate which drive should be used for what, but it seems that the default was just to put everything on C drive, so I'm not making use of the SSD at all. I imagine there are a lot of quick wins to be hand by switching a lot of things over to the D drive, but I don't know what would be best to move there and how best to do this safely.


Most of the stuff on my machine is applications - I have to run a lot of heavy apps for work (Slack, Teams, Chrome, Visual Studio, VSCode, SQL Server, Photoshop etc) - and web development files. I have a bit of music on there but nothing especially heavy like photos/videos. It's mostly a work machine.


How would I be best to organise the split between C and D to make things faster and how can I move stuff so it doesn't break things?


Many thanks.

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