Hi there,

is there any way to change the default path for the "Programs"-Folder? By default, it's C:\Programs ... but I would like to change it to D:\Programs ...

On Win9x or WinXP, it was possible to change it using TweakXP (a tweak tool). But I did't find any tool for Win2k to change it this way.

Any ideas/hints?

"Hi there,

is there any way to change the default path for the "Programs"-Folder? By default, it's C:\Programs ... but I would like to change it to D:\Programs ...

On Win9x or WinXP, it was possible to change it using TweakXP (a tweak tool). But I did't find any tool for Win2k to change it this way.

Any ideas/hints? "

GOOD QUESTION!

Been wondering this myself... I tried to alter it in BOTH the Current User & System environment values, & it does not take!

Control Panel-> System Icon-> Advanced Tab-> Environment Button & adding "Program Files" as well as "ProgramFiles" in there & setting it to another value temporarily like Z:\TEMP here (my ramdrive temp folder to experiment with it)... no dice!

I committed it by pressing OK/Apply & opened a DOS prompt & did the commandline:

echo %ProgramFiles%

And it popped back C:\Program Files anyhow...

I then tried in that SAME DOS Window console session of cmd.exe to do a SET command like this:

SET %ProgramFiles% = Z:\TEMP

(For those not used to batchfile stuff, SET's the batchfile way of temporarily altering the environment, your "in-memory .ini file" each program is given @ it's startup to reference for std. locations of various elements in the OS)

& still, NO DICE!

* THIS ONE MUST BE BEING ASSIGNED A "NAMESPACE" GUID someplace in the registry & cannot be altered OR is hardcoded to use the OS %Windir% disk by default & hardcoded (I find this tough to believe though)...

I too, would like the answer to it!



APK

Ok, I found one solution - just install Microsoft's TweakUI ... with this tool, you can change it.

BUT: if you change it, some icons can't be found anymore (everything that was preinstalled, e.g. IE, MediaPlayer, Notepad etc.) because the path of all icons was changed to e.g. D:/Program Files, too!

A bit stupid, but the heck, it works.

"Ok, I found one solution - just install Microsoft's TweakUI ... with this tool, you can change it.

BUT: if you change it, some icons can't be found anymore (everything that was preinstalled, e.g. IE, MediaPlayer, Notepad etc.) because the path of all icons was changed to e.g. D:/Program Files, too!

A bit stupid, but the heck, it works."

Heh, gotta LOVE TweakUI... takes care of alot of stuff! The "riff-raff" of the registry!

* I would like to know WHAT exactly controls this in the registry though for my own notes... I keep a sort of 'tech database' here of files organized by categorical folders & texts on various topics!

(I bet I knew this at one point, lol, because knowing me? I probably traced it using regmon.exe at one point & saw WHERE this is taking place but have forgotten it over time now. I tend to look to my tech data files now alot here on disk, but cannot find that for the life of me in them! So, I need the info...)



APK

P.S.=> If this does not get answered in the next week or so, it's off to load up regmon.exe from www.sysinternals.com & trace TweakUI on that entry... apk