re: Changing Windows temp directory to a different drive
Thursday, February 13, 2003 at 8:16 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robert
(1 messages posted)
I have run into this problem recently. This is what I did to fix the problem, this
is with Win98.
1) Copy the Temp folder in the windows directory to a drive that has space
2) Issue the set commands (in a dos window)as another poster posted
i.e. set TEMP=f:\temp (replace F:\temp with your directory)
3) Delete the temp folder in the windows directory
All this forces Windows to reset the temp folder to where you have now placed it,
if you do NOT delete the temp folder in the Windows directory (i.e. C:\windows\temp)
Windows may ignore the set commands.
This is a temporary solution, like for installing a game or something. DO NOT leave
it this way as you might have problems later on (Windows' registry has all sorts
of things pointing to the windows temp directory).
To undo this, copy that new temp folder you made and paste in back into
the Windows directory (delete extraneous files first) and issue the set commands
with the correct drive and directory as it was
at the start.
I make no promises with this procedure, use at your own risk, it worked for me for
the one install I needed to do.
On Thursday, June 14, 2001 at 12:57 pm, JC wrote:
>How does one change the temp dir from C:\windows\temp to a directory on another
drive?
>My C drive is small and full, and I am unable to install certain things (such as
>directx 8) because of space problems. The problem would be solved if the temp files
>were put on a different drive though.
>ANy ideas?
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