Thursday, May 8, 2008

Change The Default Location Of Installing Application.......

Nobody wishes to install in their C drive or the windows drive as it results in slower prformance of the computer.

The default installation directory in windows is C:\Program Files into which new programs are installed. What if u wish to install all the program into other directory or another drive.

How u can change the default installation directory or drive by using a registry hack.

Go to start>run>type here regedit.

Navigate the following registry key....

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Now in the right pane look for the string value named "ProgramFilesDir".by default, this value will be C:\Program Files.

Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and windows will use that new location as the default installation directory for new Program.

No comments: