Relocate WinNT\Installer directory?

[Howard Kaikow]

Anybody know how to relocate the Win 2000 Windows\Installer directory?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Anybody know how to relocate the Win 2000 Windows\Installer directory?

Presumably you wish to install Win2000 on drive C:
in a folder other than \WinNT. You can do this by
first formatting drive C:, then creating a folder c:\WinNT.
The installation process will now ask you where you
want Win2000 installed.

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Presumably you wish to install Win2000 on drive C:
in a folder other than \WinNT. You can do this by
first formatting drive C:, then creating a folder c:\WinNT.
The installation process will now ask you where you
want Win2000 installed.

Nope.

I need to move the Installer directory elsewhere.

It is my understanding that the location is specified by

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer

So it would appear that I can merely change that registry value, then
reboot.

However, I do not want to lose what is currently in that directory, so I
must ASSuME that I should first COPY the files to another location, then
change the registry key, then reboot.

Do I ASSuME correctly?

 

[Howard Kaikow]

I just noticed that

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer

does not identify the Installer diretory, the InstallerLocation ley
identifies WinNT\System32