Changing default program installing drive?

[ValaraZ]

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 =)

[alexi02]

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.