✔ Change The Default Location For Installing Apps

(If you don't want to take risk about registry then Back up Your Registry before editing it.)

As the size of hard drives increase, more people are using partitions to separate and store groups of files.

XP uses the "C:\Program Files\" directory as the default base directory into which new programs are installed. However, you can change the default installation drive and/ or directory by using a Registry hack.

Click Start->Run, type regedit to open registry editor and go to


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion

Look for the value named ProgramFilesDir. by default, this value will be "C:\Program Files\". Edit the value to any valid drive or folder and XP will use that new location as the default installation directory for new programs.

Note: This information is just for your knowledge... I recommend you to keep default directory only for your convenience (because i know you are more familiar with default directory) .. Even if you change it, it wont affect you or your system..
Enjoy!!