Change Auto-Install Location

Hessian · 27 Mar 2008 at 18:49

I was just wondering is there anyway to change the auto-install location of programs? I try and install all my software to a different HDD to my OS. So automatically they all want to install to C:\ProgramFiles\... whereas I would like it to automatically install to D:\...

Is this possible or is the install location built in to the software?

Smorgasbord · 27 Mar 2008 at 18:51

You would generally have to modify the individual software, unless there's a registry modifacation or something you can perform?

Hessian · 28 Mar 2008 at 21:37

Smorgasbord said:
You would generally have to modify the individual software, unless there's a registry modifacation or something you can perform?

Yeh I assumed it was down to the individual software. It's just annoying have to change the install path each time. ah well

oddjob62 · 28 Mar 2008 at 22:50

HKLM\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows \ CurrentVersion\

Change the ProgramFilesDir key