How to stop MS Office from accessing Windows installation drive?

ithehappy · 02-02-2012, 09:10 PM

As the title says, I really need to know this.
Yesterday I installed MS Office Pro Plus in my Windows 7 x64, on a different partition but not the /C partition where my Windows is installed. But strangely it took 2 GB from /F (where I actually installed it) and also another 2 GB from /C drive as well. This is annoying and I now have only 2 GB left in C drive.
In anyway can I stop this? I already uninstalled and re-installed in /F partition but same.
Any kind of help is more than appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Rishab2oo · 02-02-2012, 09:41 PM

Installation files of MS Office are copied in a folder named MSOCache in root folder of system partion. Delete it if you don't want to modify office installation and to increase disk space.

Tenida · 02-02-2012, 09:49 PM

Can you please check how many space allocated for Virtual Memory.
P.S-My suggestion is not related to MS office..Just suggesting for low desk space in /C drive

To check see the screenshot:-

1)Press Windows+pause break to system control panel

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2)Then click on Advance System Settings

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3)Then click on Performance Tab.

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4)Under Performance tab click on Advanced tab

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5)Click on Change button to view the amount of space allocated to each drive.

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Also delete recent restore point if needed.

ithehappy · 03-02-2012, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Rishab2oo

Installation files of MS Office are copied in a folder named MSOCache in root folder of system partion. Delete it if you don't want to modify office installation and to increase disk space.

Thanks, I'll delete it.
Would it affect the office based saved files?

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Originally Posted by Ghonada

Can you please check how many space allocated for Virtual Memory.

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Wow, I forgot about that cache settings. Thanks dude.
Here is mine, it's 8 GB? Should I decrease it?

Tenida · 03-02-2012, 12:49 AM

Yeah decrease it.Set 1024Mb only for /c drive, for others set blank(see the pics below).That will be enough i think.I am too allocated 1024 MB for /c, have same physical RAM as yours.

dashing.sujay · 03-02-2012, 01:18 AM

Also delete contents of %temp% & prefetch.

ithehappy · 03-02-2012, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghonada

Yeah decrease it.Set 1024Mb only for /c drive, for others set blank(see the pics below).That will be enough i think.I am too allocated 1024 MB for /c, have same physical RAM as yours.

Hell yes, done that, rebooted system, it took a while in starting, but /C drive now has 9 GB. Thanks a lot.
BTW- What the hell is that Virtual Memory stuff and the recommended size is 12 GB, are you kidding me?

dashing.sujay · 03-02-2012, 03:11 AM

Virtual memory is the portion of hard disk created and used by OS to use it as virtual RAM. The recommended size is one and half times of RAM, but user changable.

Zangetsu · 03-02-2012, 09:58 AM

Restore points,Hibernation files takes lots of space & even virtual memory...

OP has 8GB of RAM so he should allocate atleast 1.5*8 = 12GB of virtual memory

Tenida · 03-02-2012, 11:37 AM

Virtual memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ithehappy · 03-02-2012, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Zangetsu

Restore points,Hibernation files takes lots of space & even virtual memory...

OP has 8GB of RAM so he should allocate atleast 1.5*8 = 12GB of virtual memory

What if I don't

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Originally Posted by Ghonada

Virtual memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks man.

dashing.sujay · 03-02-2012, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ithehappy

What if I don't

Virtual memory is used when system falls short of RAM (technically, to avoid deadlock/RAM choke). Since you've have 8 gigs of RAM, so its rare that system would fall short of RAM.

ithehappy · 03-02-2012, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dashing.sujay

Virtual memory is used when system falls short of RAM (technically, to avoid deadlock/RAM choke). Since you've have 8 gigs of RAM, so its rare that system would fall short of RAM.

Hm, gotcha.
Thanks.

d6bmg · 03-02-2012, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Zangetsu

OP has 8GB of RAM so he should allocate atleast 1.5*8 = 12GB of virtual memory

From where did you get that?

Its not right.

Default virtual memory differs between 2-4GB which is always allocated in C drive. That's enough iff anyone disable hibernation, which is pretty much useless BTW.

dashing.sujay · 03-02-2012, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by d6bmg

From where did you get that?

Its not right.

Default virtual memory differs between 2-4GB which is always allocated in C drive. That's enough iff anyone disable hibernation, which is pretty much useless BTW.

FYI according to Windows recommendation, virtual memory, rather page file to be more precise must be equal to RAM and maximum upto 3 times of RAM, as per requirement. But either equal to RAM or 1.5 times is de facto, or by default. I hope you get it.