C: drive full (149GB) D: drive nearly empty

Hello
Not a computer specialist, so please be gentle. I can't find an answer to this on the forum that I can make sense of!
My Satellite Hard Drive is full!
WIndows C: = 4.94 GB free of 149 GB
Data D: = 138GB free of 148 GB
So, some questions:
How do I free up space on the C Drive?
Can I move stuff onto the D: Drive (photos, music &c) and the Library still find it?
As I say, I'm not a specialist!
Thank you in advance!

You can copy the contents of your whole user folder (if it is not too big!) from C: to D: e.g. c:\users\fred\
Then if you right click on each of the libraries on C: (documents, music, videos etc) and select properties you can include the new folder location on D: and after remove the folder location for C:. Then when you click on the library it will take you to the files on D: instead of C:.
For 'downloads' you will need to change the browser options (e.g. in Internet Explorer, Chrome etc) to point to the new 'downloads' folder on D: so that it saves them there.
Same thing with iTunes and other applications you use.
You can change the location of almost everything including important things like 'desktop', 'favourites' and 'contacts'.
If you restore your C: drive you won't lose anything. You will just have to add the locations to the libraries to point to the files in D: again. 5 mins work instead of hours restoring backups of your files!
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