Thursday, August 18, 2011

How To Change The Default Location For Installing Applications

As the size of hardrives increase, more people are using separate partitions and store groups of files.

XP uses the file C: \ Program Files directory, the default base directory where you installed the new software. However, you can change the default installation drive and / or directories using the Registry hack.

Run Registry Editor (regedit) and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion

Find the value called ProgramFilesDir. By default, this value will be C: \ Program Files. Change the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use the new location as the default installation directory for new programs.

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