June 5, 200620 yr Short story to clear things up: I have a friend who doesn't no much about comps, nor protects his comp and goes to sex-sites alot (free sites of course :D). anyway his comp was a wormnest so i formatted it and shared the hd to 3 so that c:\ is for O/S, d:\ is for programs and e:\ is for random stuff. Since he won't do like i tell him to (he won't remember it the next day), i would like to change the default program installing folder/drive so that it installs it everytime to d:\Program Files\* and not to c:\*. Any ideas how i could do this? O/S is windows xp home OEM. Thanks tech-heads =) Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant: "If I live, I will kill you, If I Die, you are forgiven." Such is the Rule of Honor.
June 6, 200620 yr This should help. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/ ... older.html NT/W2K/XP's default directory for installing applications is the \Program Files folder (at least for English language version of NT/Windows 2000/XP). To change the default application installation folder: Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version Name: ProgramFilesDir Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ Value: C:\Program Files default Please note that some programs ignore this registry setting. Upload your sigs here and have it randomise or progress through all your sigs for free.
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