Jim,
<p>Based on everything I have read both here and on the KnowBrainer forum, the indication is that you have a 40 GB C drive which is an SSD drive. If this is the case, and while you can move everything to the D drive, you will be giving up the kind of overall performance that an SSD drive provides.</p>
<p>Although an SSD drive does not directly impact on the performance of DNS<font face="Arial">, it does specifically improve boot times and load times, and speeds up I/O operations any kind that DNS has to write something to the hard drive relative to your user profile. Moving DNS to the D drive would cause you to lose this type of performance advantage. An SSD 3.0Gb/s drive is significantly faster than even a standard 3.0Gb/s hard drive.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>My recommendation would be that rather than move DNS from your 3.0Gb/s SSD drive, you should first consider moving any other applications (i.e., Microsoft Office, KnowBrainer, and any applications that you don't use consistently on a regular basis, and leave DNS on the C drive (SSD drive)<font face="Arial">.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>In addition, in order to move any application from your C drive to your D drive, you would have to uninstall it first from the C drive and then reinstall it to the D drive. As regards DNS, you do not need to run the Dragon remove utility and you should respond in the affirmative when asked do you want to save your user profile during the uninstall. Also, make sure you uninstall while connected to the Internet so that you recover that activation. Regardless of whether you decide to do that or not<font face="Arial">, reinstalling DNS on your D drive will only install the program files. By default, your user profiles will remain on the C drive until or unless you manually export them using the Manage Users and then import them to your D drive. Then change the <default> setting for your user profiles by using the Browse button and browsing to the exported location on your D drive. Then you can remove the user profiles from your C drive.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>Keep in mind that the largest portion of DNS is your user profile(s)<font face="Arial">. Moving the location of your user profile from C drive to D drive would free up more space than installing DNS to D drive because your profiles are much larger than the program files and continue to grow in size the more you use them.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>Regardless of what you decide to, just remember what sacrifices you're going to have to make and what you might lose in terms of performance. Whatever your decision, just remember that everybody reporting on this issue on the KnowBrainer forum is correct<font face="Arial">. The minimum size for C drive when using DNS should be no less than 120 GB. A 40 GB drive is simply too small, especially if you're going to be using Windows 7. I managed quite well on my laptop with only a 160 GB C drive. Nevertheless, Windows 7 and several applications can eat up your 40 GB drive really fast.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>Also, remember that uninstalling and reinstalling applications is tedious enough, but adding loss of performance to that considering your system configuration (i.e., that is if you have a C drive that is an SSD drive<font face="Arial">) is not really a satisfactory solution. Also, I would be hesitant to use any of the mover applications because not all of them successfully or completely resolved registry entries when moving applications from one drive to another. You need to make sure that you purchase one that does reassign the registry entries when you simply copy and move an application. Regardless, you can't do that with DNS because the general configuration of DNS requires that you uninstall and reinstall in order to get it to work properly.</font></p><font face="Arial">
</font><p>I hope this is helpful. However, if I were you, I simply go out and buy a larger SSD drive<font face="Arial">. Yes, they are expensive compared to standard hard drives, but the expense is well worth the results. Just remember the old adage, almost doesn't count except in horseshoes and grenades, and once you pull the pin on a grenade, Mr. grenade is no longer your friend.</font></p><font face="Arial"></font>
