Sunday, 3 June 2012

Change the Default Location for Installing Programs

It may happen that your windows drive (usually C:) getting over and there is low disk space. Now you are installing program in another location by browsing every time you install the program.
If so, don't worry you can change the default location for installing program so that you don't have to browse every time. For this you have to change registry setting.

Click Start Run type regedit 
and press enter.
Expand the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. 

By default, 
the value will be C:\Program Files. Edit the value to any valid drive or folder; 

XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs.

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