Hi, I have a partitioned hard drive with seperate partition for my
applications. How do I set the default installation path to be E:\Program
Files not C:\Program Files? This will make it much more convenient for me.
Plus, some installation programs just install in the default location with
no chance to specify!
Thanks!

Since you can not change the way 3rd party programs are written, you have to
live with this. Not all programs will allow you to perform a custom
installation. Many programs will "always" install part of their files to
C:\Programs Files.

"Ben" <ben@crisisfromthe_removethis_sky.co.uk> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi, I have a partitioned hard drive with seperate partition for my
> applications. How do I set the default installation path to be E:\Program
> Files not C:\Program Files? This will make it much more convenient for me.
> Plus, some installation programs just install in the default location with
> no chance to specify!
> Thanks!
>
>

Ok, but I have had it set up in the past so that it automatically installed
to E:\Program Files, not C:\Program Files. This was when I moved C:\Program
Files to E:. There WASN'T a C:\Program Files!!! However, I don't want to do
that this time, I want my Windows apps, like IE & OE to be on C: and the
rest to be on E. I'm sure there's somewhere in the registry that
installation programs refer to.

"Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Since you can not change the way 3rd party programs are written, you have
to
> live with this. Not all programs will allow you to perform a custom
> installation. Many programs will "always" install part of their files to
> C:\Programs Files.
>
> "Ben" <ben@crisisfromthe_removethis_sky.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi, I have a partitioned hard drive with seperate partition for my
> > applications. How do I set the default installation path to be
E:\Program
> > Files not C:\Program Files? This will make it much more convenient for
me.
> > Plus, some installation programs just install in the default location
with
> > no chance to specify!
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
>
>

Ben wrote:

> Ok, but I have had it set up in the past so that it automatically installed
> to E:\Program Files, not C:\Program Files. This was when I moved C:\Program
> Files to E:. There WASN'T a C:\Program Files!!! However, I don't want to do
> that this time, I want my Windows apps, like IE & OE to be on C: and the
> rest to be on E. I'm sure there's somewhere in the registry that
> installation programs refer to.
>
> "Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Since you can not change the way 3rd party programs are written, you have
>
> to
>
>>live with this. Not all programs will allow you to perform a custom
>>installation. Many programs will "always" install part of their files to
>>C:\Programs Files.
>>
>>"Ben" <ben@crisisfromthe_removethis_sky.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>>Hi, I have a partitioned hard drive with seperate partition for my
>>>applications. How do I set the default installation path to be
>
> E:\Program
>
>>>Files not C:\Program Files? This will make it much more convenient for
>
> me.
>
>>>Plus, some installation programs just install in the default location
>
> with
>
>>>no chance to specify!
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
There are no settings in any OS to compensate for lazy programming. If
an installer doesn't give me a choice of where to install the
application I just assume the app is as poorly written as its installer
and refuse to use the software.

John