Sorry if that was excessively long, and thanks for your help. When installing a game in the future, Steam will ask which library you want to install it to, but you should be able to move your games at any time. To move other games, just repeat this process. I know I can just tell Steam to install a new copy of itself when downloading Skyrim to C:/ but I don't want to have 2 copies of steam on the same drive. Steam will move the game’s files to the other library location. I'm wanting to do this to save myself that extra click when tinkering/modding Skyrim in the future and to reduce an overly long file path. I have no issues with UAC, it is already disabled. Is it safe to simply delete the Steam folder out of Program Files(x86), or is there a particular process I need to take to do it correctly? The Steam install that is currently on my SSD does not have a Steam Library folder for some reason (I assume because all my games are on the HHD and SteamLibrary is only created when at least 1 game is installed in the folder?) Is that something that should concern me at all? I am not sure of the best way to go about this while making sure I don't cause any potential issues with Steam or Skyrim down the road.

In many cases that's not going to be a problem, but it will if. That is, whichever one Windows is installed on. I want to move my steam install on the SSD out of Program Files(x86)/Steam and directly under C:/Steam The option to select an alternate download and installation location for Steam games is really useful, especially if the main hard drive partition of the computer, the one Steam was installed on, is not large enough to hold all the games that you want to keep available on the system. By default, Steam will download your games to whatever is the main drive on your PC. It is like changing the install location on Windows. I want to install Skyrim on the faster SSD drive for better performance, while keeping all other games on the HHD.ĥ. This will install the game files to a different directory while steam will remain where it is currently installed, so everything that is needed for the game will be located there. All of my Steam games are located on the 2 TB HHD and so was my previous install of Skyrim.Ĥ. I have an install location on my HHD at F:/Steam and on my SSD drive at C:/Program Files(x86)/Steamģ. I have 2 hard drives, a standard 2 TB HHD drive and a 128 GB SSD drive.Ģ. After completing all the recommended uninstallation procedures and wiping out everything, I am about to re-install Skyrim.

I'm currently in the process of doing a fresh/clean/vanilla install of Skyrim.

Steam game install location