Comments on: How to Change Default Windows Installation Path to Your Desired Path http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/03/23/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/ Living Digitally and Electronically Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:36:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Swain http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/03/23/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/comment-page-1/#comment-591010 Swain Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:56:51 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/?p=24538#comment-591010 Can you use a multi-item value in ProgramFilesPath like: %ProgramFiles%,C:\Program Files to give programs two places to look for files? In any case, it seems that one might have to adjust any KEY that had "C:\Program Files" in it to start. Such as the "CommonFilesDir" KEY. Can you use a multi-item value in ProgramFilesPath like:
%ProgramFiles%,C:\Program Files
to give programs two places to look for files?
In any case, it seems that one might have to adjust any KEY that had “C:\Program Files” in it to start. Such as the “CommonFilesDir” KEY.

]]> By: McHep http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/03/23/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/comment-page-1/#comment-567087 McHep Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:22:03 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/?p=24538#comment-567087 You should not do this registry-hack after installing windows or after some applications were installed using the original path Reason: if some programs writes REG_EXPAND_SZ-Values and were installed in the old directory and then read the registry-value they get the new directory. Even if this prog was installed in a different directory! You should not do this registry-hack after installing windows or after some applications were installed using the original path

Reason: if some programs writes REG_EXPAND_SZ-Values and were installed in the old directory and then read the registry-value they get the new directory. Even if this prog was installed in a different directory!

]]> By: missingxtension http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/03/23/how-to-change-default-windows-installation-path-to-your-desired-path/comment-page-1/#comment-567063 missingxtension Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:08:42 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/?p=24538#comment-567063 This might be helpfull if you could nlite it, but after the fact is not that helpfull. This might be helpfull if you could nlite it, but after the fact is not that helpfull.

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