Hi Binos! Note that your driveletters may/will change if you put in a second HDD. This may confuse installed programs that run off or partly off a CD (including the Windows CD). This may be more or less of a hassle depending on how happy you are hacking your system. Easiest is to have a second HDD installed and partitioned BEFORE you install Windows or anything. See
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...threadid=85408
To change where IE stores temporary internet files - in IE select Tools/Internet Options/General/Temporary Internet Files/Settings/Move Folder and indicate which drive you want to use.
Changing the location of Windows temporary files is theoretically easy. In the absence of any instructions to the contrary Win 9.x automatically sets the values of the pointers TEMP and TMP in the DOS environment to C:/WINDOWS/TEMP and stuff goes there. Just include a line at the start of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (for Win9.x) that says:
SET TEMP=D:/TEMP (or whatever)
Make sure that the disk and directory exist first - you must create a D:/TEMP directory first.
To trap boot errors you can use the line
IF EXIST D:/TEMP/NUL SET TEMP=D:/TEMP
instead if you want to be fussy.
Actually I've stopped relocating TEMP in this way because my Win98 occasionally got confused, but I've done this on other machines with no problems.
Note that for reasons known only to M$ you can't set both TEMP and TMP environmental variables in AUTOEXEC.BAT - if you try to then Win98 will ignore the line or complain.
Relocating temporary files is probably also possible in XP but I haven't explored this.