How to Change The Default Location For Installing Applications

  Whenever you install a certain software or game it normally installs them to the default location of installed programs which is C:\Program Files. The majority of program installer gives you the choice to change the location the place you will place the software, but a number of applications don’t provide you the luxury to do that. You may want to change the program installer location if you have several partitions or hard drive and want to put all the installed programs on another disk while leaving the basic disk with only windows files installed.

Here is a quick guide on how you can change the default location for installing applications. This trick involves registry editing therefore I strongly suggest that you make a clone first on your registry before continuing with this guide.

1. Run your registry editor by going into Start –> Run –> type regedit.

2. Browse to the following keys

"My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion"

3. On right side pane look for the value 'ProgramFilesDir', change it to your location.