MS Direct X 9.0

HaroldC wrote on 3/27/2008, 7:06 PM
My computer's C drive is fairly full of programs. I'm having to free up some space. MS Direct X 9.0 is eating up 430 mb. Does VMS or DVDA use Direct X in any way? Also should there be any problem in uninstalling it from the computer? For some reason Sony put a 120 gb HD and partitioned it into a 20 gb HD and 100 gb HD.

Thanks

Comments

Himanshu wrote on 3/27/2008, 8:33 PM
Where did you find that DirectX 9.0 is using up 430MB? The end-user run-time should not be listed in Add/Remove programs. If you do have something listed in Add/Remove Programs, it's probably the Microsoft DirectX SDK, not the run-time. If it is the SDK, you can safely remove it.

If you're unlucky and your C drive is the 20GB one, it might be worthwhile to get a partition manager program and merge your C & D drives back into one partition so you don't run into this situation again. I'm in a similar boat with my 160GB drive being split into 40+120GB, and unfortunately C is the smaller partition.
Eugenia wrote on 3/28/2008, 1:12 AM
Yes, Vegas uses DirectX for acceleration. You need the latest version installed.
HaroldC wrote on 3/28/2008, 3:49 AM
Himanshu can you recommend a partition manager program? Thanks Eugenia. Good thing I didn't uninstall it. My add/remove had it as 430 mb.
Himanshu wrote on 3/28/2008, 7:51 AM
Harold,

Because I haven't used a Partitioning program in recent memory I cannot recommend one. Usually I just wipe out the disk and start again (after backing up all the data of course!).

Again, you do not need the DirectX SDK to run Vegas. If it shows up in the Add/remove programs I think that it should be the SDK not the end-user run-time. The end-user DirectX is not uninstallable as far as I know - it is a required component of Windows. You can download the latest DirectX run-time web-based installer here.
HaroldC wrote on 3/28/2008, 1:52 PM
Resizing the C drive is probably a better long term solution. There aren't many crap programs that amount to any drive space left. I'll read up on it and look into the different partition managers.
gpsmikey wrote on 3/28/2008, 2:37 PM
BING (Boot It Next Gen) from Terabyteinc is a fairly nice program.
It allows you to resize partitions, slide them around etc. A bit
on the "geeky" side, but it fits on a floppy, works well and is well
supported (they have their own news server even). I have used
it for several years (along with their Image for DOS and Image
for Windows utilities). Check out their stuff at
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm
Here is the support page for BING - check out the manuals etc.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/support-bootit-next-generation.htm

mikey
HaroldC wrote on 3/29/2008, 10:13 AM
Thanks, but not being particularly geeky (compared to those here abouts) I went with Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 Personal. I reallocated some of D to the C drive and now I can get back to it.

Thanks