Default C directory

[Jim318]

Hello,

I had installed windows on a new hard drive. I made two partitions on the drive one for the Operating System and one for application and data.

Yet, whenever I go to install a program it wants to default to the same drive that windows is on. Is there anyway to change this default setting?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Comtech]

TweakUI will change it, or you can edit the registry.
Don't do this unless you are competent to do registry editing, you can easily trash your system with it.
The path to the key is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion",
the key is named "ProgramFilesDir". Change it to whatever folder/drive you want. Cheers,
Jim

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[Jim318]

Thank you!

Jim

 

[Jim318]

Forgive the second question but is this there also a registry key for MyDocuments defaulting to the windows partition?

I ran a search through the registry on MyDocuments but I did not find anything that was obvious.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[NADIAZIPPER]

There is an easire solution to your second question. Right click on my documents ,go to properties and click on move. Then point to where my document pullls and saves data to. We use that at my work on all XP machines that way users save to a network drive rather than a local drive.

 

[Comtech]

You mean for IE downloads?
You want a different folder than "My Documents" as default...
Look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer for "Download Directory", change it to whatever you want.
Here too: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Cheers,
Jim

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[Jim318]

Thank you! I have been searching for answers to these two questions for a while. I truly appreciate your help!

Jim