The arrival of mobile devices has made many users demand the function of moving programs or apps from one type of storage to another. This is useful as allows us to move installed programs from one hard drive to another and thus save space for other purposes such as updates.
In mobile operating systems, where internal storage is small, such as Android or Windows 10 Mobile, this has been done for a long time and now in Windows 10 for desktop we can also do it in an easy and simple way.
Thus, to move a program we will use an external program called FreeMove, a free program that allows us to move installed programs from unit to unit, without stopping working and without the need for great technical knowledge.
In Windows 10 we can move programs like on mobile
For this to take place we have first of download the FreeMove program. Once downloaded and installed on our computer, we execute the program and a window like the following one will appear:
In this window, in the "move from" section we indicate the current path of the application. And in the "to" section we will indicate the new route of the application, that is, where we will move the application. Where we can change the hard drive or storage unit.
It is very important that let us indicate the main directory of the application since otherwise moving the application will not work and we will even have operating problems.
FreeMove's functionality is especially useful when we are dealing with a computer with a low capacity ssd disk and a secondary HDD that has more capacity, leaving space on the SSD for more important programs like updates.
Although it must be remembered that there is also the possibility to install the application directly on the HDD, we just have to modify the installation directory during the installation.