Comments on: How to change the default location for installing applications in Windows

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:36:09 +0000

Awesome tutorial article. Thanks. I know everyone likes to note the speed as the issue. I view it as a security benefit. While not fool proof it does help to keep the OS a bit more safe and stable.

By: Miguel Angel

Miguel Angel — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:27:14 +0000

Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly on my computer. Can I move the registry also in Windows?

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:34:43 +0000

I tried this, but it does not really work. In the sense that you cannot install programs to an external drive because there are still too many entries into the registry. If you replace the hard drive with the OS on it, it won’t recognize any of those programs. Only useful for storing data separately.

By: ThoughtEyeNew

ThoughtEyeNew — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:38:53 +0000

If two drives are running at the same time, one drive for OS the other drive for a program seems to me most everything would be faster.

My brain is capable of thinking of two thoughts at once which allows my left hand to write the top paragraph on the whiteboard while my right hand writes this bottom paragraph. That is faster than writing with one hand.

I know the bottom paragraph has more letters.

That is because my right hand can write faster.

Maybe my right hand is connected to a faster brain processor.

Then again, maybe I will stop

by saying thank you for the information.

By: azizrahman

azizrahman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:49:01 +0000

thanx for sharing a nice tip….

By: Jai

Jai — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:30:13 +0000

thanks for the article…it really helped me out with my Windows machine

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:32:32 +0000

If I install my applications to another hard drive, will that allow me to format my main system partition and install a fresh OS without having to reinstall all my programs? Aren’t some program setting stored in the registry? Thanks.

By: Matty

Matty — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:22:31 +0000

Thank you for the computer tips, computer guy!

By: TheMystical

TheMystical — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:33:53 +0000

I used to follow this scheme back in the days of win98 and very small HDDs and honestly I didn’t see any increase of speed.
Since computer’s hardware got Harder/Better/Faster/ Stronger since XP came along I can’t really see a good reason to do this. Now I have a quad processor with 8GB of ram, 10k rpm drives and I’m a happy camper

By: anakngtinapa

anakngtinapa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:23:47 +0000

there is one good reason to install the apps to the other partition using this scheme. it saves a big amount of ghost backup size

By: Haree | ഹരീ

Haree | ഹരീ — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:43:08 +0000

I too used to do the same; edit the registry and change the Program Files directory. In XP it worked fine, BUT in Vista:
> Some programs are not working including the default picture viewer is NOT working after changing the Program Files location.
> IE, Media Player etc. are working fine. (The icons will not appear, but once you run it the icons will be restored.)

Is there anyway to change the Program Files location without troubling the Windows Vista default programs?
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By: Marc Sheffner

Marc Sheffner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:25:43 +0000

I want to change the default drive for my user files in Windows Vista. Can you tell me how to do that?

By: Bene

Bene — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:57:17 +0000

na instalação do vista business é possivel eu mudar o diretório de DADOS onde o padrão é no C:\Users para outra partição , por Exemplo: D: ? ou seja eu gostaria que os aplicativos ficassem no C: e os dados no D:
é possivel.

By: thomas

thomas — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:57:52 +0000

useful tip!

By: Ajay Pathak @ readerszone

Ajay Pathak @ readerszone — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:10:46 +0000

when we take backup all installed programs are also added in the backup if i use this method?