Need help with Windows 10

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I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 and need help with a couple things..

I've uninstalled a few programs that I no longer use (OneDrive, Avira Connect and Kaspersky Secure Connection), but I still see them in the taskbar icon tray, how do I completely remove them? See link for details..

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Secondly, my Windows 10 is installed on my C Drive, which is an SSD. I don't want anything else on there except for Windows. So all my programs and files are on my D Drive. However, I like using my desktop for shortcut to my folders, but I realized the desktop belong to C Drive, how can I have D Drive folders on my desktop without it affecting my C Drive? Can I reroute the desktop?

 

[Sinji58]

For the task bar icons, confirm you fully uninstalled them. Secondly, reboot. If that doesn't work, just turn them off.

For the SSD and d drive. In the windows search bar, search backup, you can use Windows to forward types of files to your other drive automatically.

 

[Colif]

it seems pointless having only win 10 on the ssd if, for example, you need to reinstall win 10 you would also need to reinstall all the programs on D drive (apart from a few like Steam, Wow & Origin game folders) so why bother? It just leads to orphan folders on D and more work in the long run.

Move Library folders & games to the hdd but most other things should run off it to get the speed boost off the ssd.

I don't think you can move the desktop to D and it doesn't save that much space as most files on desktop are just shortcuts and 1kb isn't going to kill your ssd.

 

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Yes I've uninstalled them and rebooted but they still show up.. I know I can just turn them off but it annoys me seeing them there.

My SSD is very small as I was only intending to put my OS on there for faster boot ups, so I don't have the luxury of putting other things on there.

So if I move a D folder onto the desktop, it's just a short cut to the original folder? The actual folder and it's contents aren't moved to the SSD? Even though desktop belongs to SSD drive? I want to move my movies folder onto the desktop for quicker access, the folder is nearly 70 GB, which would kill my SSD.

 

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