@Thanatomanic Yep, all I want to do is nudge X just enough to appease the space requirement encroachment. I will wait for someone with more exp to come by. Thanks for your input!
@heckflosse Again, that might be tricky. Examples:
1 Windows tends to move things around. Recently, they moved the font folder to another location, confusing lots of people and software.
2 It doesn’t seem to like people tampering with system files and go to great lengths in returning things to where they are supposed or ought to be. There have been anecdotes of people discovering win10 moving 10s of GBs of data (maybe causing issues because of that). So, I am concerned that mounting or linking might 
things up in the future.