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Changing documents folder from D: and its effects
Hello!
I have recently bought a lenovo y580 intended as a desktop replacement but more so for gaming. The game is play is arma 2. For speed, I installed a crucial 256 GB SSD and I have my OS on it, I also put the games on to it.
Now an inherent problem with the laptop is the heat it generates - after researching I found that the build is fairly poor in that the CPU and GPU heat transference happens on to the HDD which heats up to alarming levels.
While installing mods, the installer ends up putting the mods into the documents folder which (I do not know HOW this happened!) reside on D: (the hdD and not SSD). I thought the default, while installing the OS, would be on C:
So while playing the game some stuff is still accessed from the HDD, I would ideally like everything to be read off the SSD, this is for 2 reasons - one is speed and the other is the above mentioned reason, if I dont use the HDD then its heating might reduce.
So that was all the background - now to the meat of the question. I know I can change my Documents location from one drive to another. My question is would games/apps work without changes, would the registry changes happen automatically when the location is changed? I did not want to end up hitting the move button without knowing the repercussions. Hence the question, please let me know your opinions and options I have.
peace
Ananth