Windows 10: I need tour technical opinion about moving Customizations folder into C:\ Recovery and...

I have a small Model 10-p001nl - HP x2 Detachable PC tablet with eMMC 32 GB system disk. The system disk, contsaining only O.S. Windows 10 1909 version, is almost full with 2,5 GB free host name DESKTOP-8UJKBES.

I am an old born in 1955 IT technical fellow so I used all Microsoft functions for free space on disk including specific disk folders selective compression usingcompact command, installing all apps on D: 129 GB microSD or otherwise moving executable apps folders on D: for apps tahat do not allow to select a specific folder for installation es. Google Chrome installer and substituting it with a junction, uninstalling all non used apps including windows apps installed with O.S., reducing SWAP file and Paging file, deleting Recovery partition, removing hibernation file ecc.

Now i observed disk usage with WinDirStat disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool and decided to move:

• Customizations folder into C:\ Recovery and substituting it with a junction
• Fonts folder into C:\Windows and substituting it with a junction

It was necessary fo copy folders to D: disk, create junctions with different name, delete previous folders and rename junctions from Win PE environment started from bootable device.


Now i have almost 10 GB free on system disk end all works fine excluded for an error on chrome based browsers Google Chrome and new Microsoft Edge wich fails to get pages from the internet showing an obscure "..break point" message. This happens also if executable folder is not moved on D: with a junction.



May you superview my work and give me your opinion ??

Best Regards

Leonardo Danza

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Move Recovery Folder to Another Partition or Disk

Thanks for the quick reply. What I am looking for is a way to move the recovery
folder to another drive. The recovery partition is on a HHD and isn't a space problem. The recovery folder contains two files that take up the space I want to recover:

C:\Recovery\Customizations\FactoryApps.ppkg

C:\Recovery\Customizations\usmt.ppkg

A google search will find a lot of confusion between recovery folder and a recovery partition. The confusion is made worse by the fact that the two items have a similar size.

 

C windows installer folder - Delete?

He can do symbolic link redirection and move the files in it to a different location. *Wink
Better try it out in a virtual of first. Just a suggestion.

Like:
First move everything in c:\windows\installer to d:\installercache
Then delete c:\windows\installer folder
Then type this in command mode as admin
mklink /d c:\windows\installer d:\installercache

Removing those installer files is a bad idea. it might prevent you from updating or uninstalling apps.

 

Recovery Folder on C drive

Yes, it's a Dell convertible tablet. Tree Size Free says Recovery contains one folder called Customizations, and it contains one file called Apps.ppkg.

I tried to move the folder, but it says that System owns it, and even though I am an administrator, I can't seem to do anything to move it or delete it.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

TJ