install programs on...

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In Ken Blake, MVP typed on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:28:44 -0700:
...you can almost always install them on any drive you want. However,
some parts of the program are usually installed on the system drive,
regardless of where you choose to install it, so there is hardly ever
any benefit to doing what you suggest.
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I take it that you never installed something like X-Plane which is a
60GB program. That is right, no typo, it's 60GB. It comes on 6 dual
layered DVDs.

And no, you don't have to install any part of the program on the system
drive. Nor do you have to have anything on the system drive with other
tools such as Sandboxie.
 
DL said:
Thats a complete waste of time/effort, since the installation of any
app, unless avery simple one, will in any case install files to the
win drive, apart from of course the reg entries.
So if you format the win drive to reinstall win you will still have to
reinstall your apps.
So whats the advantage?
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There are many.
* Ease of backups
* Ease of upgrading the non-system disk
* Protection of the system disk
* Less vulnerability of the system disk to things like defragmenters running
amok
* Increased execution speed
* And more
 
Spouting intelligence perhaps. Which is much better than spouting
dangerous and harmful thoughts that you leave for others to clean up
your mess that you have created. Which is a big difference between you
and I. <grin>

In DL typed on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:47:28 +0100:
 
In Twayne typed on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:17:28 -0400:
Not true. Most can be, and they can even be installed to external
drives. You're probably thinking of dev progs et al. If they can't
run on another drive, the installs won't allow you to do so IME;
there will be no choice given.
For the OP, obviously EVERYTHING doesn't really go to the other
drive; several pieces of them will still go to the win drive if they
are using the registry. More and more programs these days are being
written without using the registry and that's a good thing. All that
goes in the registry is the add/remove entry. This would be most GPL
licensed ware, etc..
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Hi Twayne! Not necessarily! There are programs that keep applications
all together and keeps them out of the system folders and/or partitions.
These are called under a number of names including sandboxes (handy for
security reasons). Others are programs that makes normally non-portablle
applications into portable ones, thus does something simular. Then there
are others like virtual machines, that allows you to also run
applications outside of the system partition and folders.

http://www.sandboxie.com/ (free)
 
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