How to Change and set Default Windows Installation Path

Posted on April 19th, 2009 in Microsoft, Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP by Gil Kreslavsky

Unusually Operating System is installed on C drive and whenever you install new program it goes to C:\Program Files\program name

I is because the default suggested installation path is C:\Program Files.
It can cause a problem when C drive is been wrong partitioned and the size of C drive is small
You can use registry to change the default application installation path to for example install in D:\Programs,
To set different default installation path, follow the steps bellow:

Pres on start
Type in run regedit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion.
At the right panel, loacate ProgramFilesDir.
Double click on it to change the value to your desired path. For example, change the value from C:\Program Files to D:\Programs.