Windows7- is it possible to change the drive my 'downloads' folder sits on?

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I have a 80gb ssd as my boot drive, and a 1tb samsung spinpoint for storage.

The current default location for downloads is on also on the ssd. I would like to change this to avoid cluttering it up with junk.

Is there any way I can change the default location that downloads will be written to?

(I do know I can right click on a download, select save as and choose precisely where the downloaded file is written, but I want to change the default location sovi don't gave to bother).
 
I typically use firefox, but thanks.

Forgive my stupidity but I had thought that the way things worked related to windows itself rather than the browser. E.g I believe when windows installed it created a downloads folder in 'my documents'. Therefore I had thought that I was windows itself that was choosing the downloads location.

I presume I should be able to adjust something in firefox to achieve what I want.
 
Within Firefox: Tools -> Options -> General tab -> Downloads section -> Select "Save files to" and pick a directory.
 
Firefox will control its own download folder, but you can actually change the Windows default one too. Open My Documents, right-click the Downloads folder, choose Properties, click the Location tab.
 
Mattus said:
Firefox will control its own download folder, but you can actually change the Windows default one too. Open My Documents, right-click the Downloads folder, choose Properties, click the Location tab.
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I've just done exactly this for my SSD. It's like I've gone back in time 10 years - I can't remember the last time I had to worry about disk space!

Anyhow, this will sort it out for IE. In Chrome, you'll have to edit the download folder path as by default it sticks downloads in your Documents folder.
 
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