❔ help install visual studios on disk D: instead of C:
so im trying to install visual studio but when i run the visual studio it starts to download the visual studio installer on my C: disk instead of my D: one can anyone help
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Visual Studio installer can't be changed, it's how you install VS and modify it's modules
Visual Studio Installer isn't Visual Studio itself, it's basically the setup to install VS.
let me explain better
To change the location, you can press 'Change' at the bottom.
You have to uninstall Visual Studio to change it after that.
You can select a different location only when you first install Visual Studio. If you've already installed it and want to change the location, you must uninstall Visual Studio and then reinstall it.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/change-installation-locations?view=vs-2022
im a little slow but if i understand right if i change it to my D: disk and then redownload it will it instal into my D: disk
If you have installed Visual Studio already, then you must uninstall Visual Studio to change the location.
If not, then you can just press 'change' to change the location then download visual studio after that
If you are in the process of installing visual studio and want to change your mind, I believe you must uninstall it as well to change the location.
so when i have thse things and i want to change it to my D: disk
what do i change it to
and if i try to move the files from my C: to my D: it only lets me copy not move
how do i change this one
You can't, as stated in the link I posted above.
so its gonna download partially on my C: disk no matter what?
Yes.
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TreeSize Free | JAM Software
TreeSize Free is a free disk space manager for Windows. The software shows you the sizes of folders including all subfolders.
Note that it's all manual, it just shows you what takes the most space.
nothing is saving my C: disk
this notebook too old
Why did you choose to keep download cache?
to be 100% with you
i dont know what the fuck that shit mean so i just left it
It means everything that has been downloaded (cache) will be kept if you want to uninstall then install it again.
That way it doesn't have to download the files again, so it can just directly install them immediately.
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