Change windows install path in registry

By Maitreya Patni. October 13, Tricks Microsoft Windows. Tags How to Windows. Editor's Pick. He loves helping people around him to get through the day to day trouble they face with technology. So that, they can love technology as much as he does! You cannot modify these locations in Internet Explorer.

The following programs use the standard Windows APIs to determine the location of the Internet Explorer installation folder:. Note When we developed Internet Explorer 7, we decided to use the standard method to determine the location of the Windows Internet Explorer 7 installation folder. This decision was made to help increase the stability of Windows Internet Explorer 7.

The decision was also made to help reduce the risk of problems that you may experience with regard to compatibility with other programs and with regard to Windows Internet Explorer 7 serviceability. Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly.

Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

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Open the Start menu by clicking on the Windows icon and hit the Settings gear icon from the left side. Click on the System settings. It's the first option with a laptop icon. Thank you for your input, all parts of which are fair enough. And, yes, maybe I am intent on that, but just maybe the OS could offer more options.

And I do drive the coolest car. But seriously, I am thinking that there is speed to be gained by having the OS on one drive; and have it load programs from another. And this is the basis for my efforts; which I will now abort anyway. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site. Any image, link, or discussion of nudity. Any behavior that is insulting, rude, vulgar, desecrating, or showing disrespect.

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Thank you for responding. I will need to think about doing it again this way if at all. If I follow your lead precisely, can I assume that the Windows programs continue to work, while having my installs go to the new path? In my earlier efforts I could not even open the registry editor anymore; so could not fix the issue.

And attempting to Repair from the installation medium also failed. Given the speed of today's hardware, I don't think it would make any difference performance-wise if you tried to install applications on a different partition. No matter where you install them, applications write to the registry, which is always located on the system partition.

Applications also install files onto the system partition and reference libraries on the system partition. Applications and the OS are deeply linked so it makes no sense to separate them. It's like making newlyweds sleep on separate beds. If you want to separate your data from your software, that's a fabulous idea.

Windows makes it easy to do that. And it makes sense, because if you need to restore a backup of your OS why send your personal folders back in time, and vice versa? I have similar questions.