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Title: Changing Default Location For Installing Apps Post by: Alex on February 24, 2007, 04:07:54 PM Change The Default Location For Installing Apps
----------------------------------------------- As the size of hard drives increase, more people are using partitions to separate and store groups of files. XP uses the C:\Program Files directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack. Go to :- - Start > Run - Type ?regedit? (without ?? NOOBS!) - Go to this directory? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion - Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default,this value will be C:\Program Files. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs. |