How do I set a default install location?

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Prone2Madness

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Hello, I am new to the forum and I need some help. Ok, I have a Asus ROG G750jw laptop and installed is a Samsung 840 EVO SSD 120gig as my boot drive and a WD Black 750gig as my secondary. I am looking to set the default install directory to my secondary drive so nothing installs to the boot drive. I need the files Appdata, Program Files and program files (x86) and so on. I am familiar with Regedit. I have changed the registry default values and set them to my secondary drive. Is there any steps I need to do further? or is that all? Your help is most appreciated.
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hi there.

Basically what you've already done should be enough. This is not officially supported by Microsoft, so it's a good idea to have your registry backed up, just in case something goes wrong, so you could go ahead and do that now if everything is working fine, just to be on the safe side. Here's a tutorial on how to change the default install location: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/933700/microsoft-does-not-support-changing-the-location-of-the-program-files-folder-by-modifying-the-programfilesdir-registry-value

Basically I'd recommend that you manually select the destination path for each program/app you decide to install, instead of messing up with the registry. You could also make the default download location for...
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Hi there.

Basically what you've already done should be enough. This is not officially supported by Microsoft, so it's a good idea to have your registry backed up, just in case something goes wrong, so you could go ahead and do that now if everything is working fine, just to be on the safe side. Here's a tutorial on how to change the default install location: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/933700/microsoft-does-not-support-changing-the-location-of-the-program-files-folder-by-modifying-the-programfilesdir-registry-value

Basically I'd recommend that you manually select the destination path for each program/app you decide to install, instead of messing up with the registry. You could also make the default download location for all the programs that can download files, to be a specific folder on your hard drive instead of using the User Folders on your C: drive.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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