Locking user out of boot ssd?

scarecrow398 · Aug 4, 2013

So, i'm building a PC for my brother who isn't exactly the most PC adept person (Think along the lines of the average office worker) and i'm looking to run either Windows 7 or Windows 8 (With Start8, depending on useable i find it when i mess around with it.) on a 60gb SSD and i'm wondering if there's a way i can lock him out of installing programs to said SSD so he doesn't fill it and i have to come back to complaints.

I'm fine with having him browsing said drive just not installing programs to it such as when installers set the default to C.

aatje92 · Aug 4, 2013

60gb is barely enough i would get a 120gb one if i were you. You can change the default installation directory in numerous ways, but if he really can't manually install a program to a different hard drive should he even be installing programs?

Anyway in regedit you can edit these keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

The values "ProgramFilesDir" and "ProgramFilesDir (X86)" should be edited.

idk what happens with already installed programs though, but you could copy the program files dir from c to the other drive to prevent errors.

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