I like to keep my main drive running mainly the OS.

On my second drive I like to install the majority of my programs. However, windows always wants to install programs to “c:\program files” and changing it everytime can be a pain.

After you back up your registry, this is how you can change this default location.

1. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files

3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program Files for example.

Remember you have to reboot for your changes to show.

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written by TMP \\ tags: drive, General, Windows