Change programfiles variable on windows

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Published on 2011-11-11T23:58:02Z Indexed on 2011/11/12 1:56 UTC
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I have built a computer for a user that asked me for "speed": an SSD was the obvious solution because what he means by speed is "fast boot time".

This solved the problem, however the user is not smart enough to remember that he must install programs on D rather than C (c is the ssd, D is an raid 1 hdd).

The only solution that comes in my mind is changing programfiles variable such that will point to D rather than C by default.

Otherwise, other solutions are ok but I really can't find anything else at the moment.

Does anyone have recommendations for how to accomplish changing the default installation directory in Windows?

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