Hi Dave,
Yes, all future program installs will be in the location you specify when
you make the Registry change. There is a "side effect" to making this change
and that is, it also changes the default location of all programs already in
C:\Program Files. I also install my programs to a different drive and when I
made the change, certain Windows programs installed on C: drive suddenly
became unavailable (Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, Notepad, etc.).
In view of this, I would recommend you only make the change as needed to
install a program, such as AIM 6.0, that doesn't provide an opportunity to
specify the install location. Then, once the program is installed,
immediately reverse the change. I haven't tried it in this manner but it
should work since the program files are not 'physically' moved by the
change. It did not affect any programs installed on my second drive.
I think your choices at this point are to stay with version 5.9 and wait for
AOL to change their way of thinking (not likely), or use another program
such as Trillian. You can check out Trillian here:
Cerulean Studios - Learn about Trillian:
http://www.trillian.cc/learn/
Sven Swanson, Sr.
The NoSpin Group, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Schroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Installing AIM to different drive
Sven,
Will all future installation of programs be place on the E: drive after
making this registry change? I don't necessarily want that to happen. I
use my E: drive for any programs the kids are installing. That way they
won't fowl up the OS which by the way is XP home with SP2 and all current
updates.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Installing AIM to different drive
> Hello Dave,
>
> There is a minor Registry change you can make to change the default
> location
> for program installation. Although this is easy and simple to do, never
> attempt any changes to the Registry without first making a backup. You can
> use a small program called ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT) for this.
> You can get it here:
>
> ERUNT and NTREGOPT:
> http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
>
> The NTREGOPT (NT Registry Optimizer) is part of the download and
> instructions for both are on the download site. Depending on your system,
> the backup will probably be 15-20 MB in size. The default save location is
> C:\WINDOWS\ERDNT. You will have an opportunity to change it and I
> recommend
> your E: drive or a partition other than the one Windows is installed on.
> You
> may want to copy it to a CD or an external drive if one is available.
>
> After you make the backup, go to Start\Run and type "regedit" in the Open
> text box. Click "OK". This launches the Registry Editor.
>
> In the Registry Editor, go to the following Registry key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
>
> In the right pane of the console, right-click the ProgramFilesDir entry.
>
> Click Modify.
>
> In the Edit String dialog box, type in a new path, such as "E:\Program
> Files" (that will set the new default location as the Program Files folder
> on the E: drive).
>
> Click "OK". Go to File\Exit to close the Registry Editor.
>
> Sven Swanson, Sr.
> The NoSpin Group, Inc.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Schroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 2:53 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Installing AIM to different drive
>
> Hello Listers,
> AIM (AOL Inatant Messenger) recently came out with version 6 and prompted
> me
> to update from version 5.9. Naturally I went to install it but
> unfortunately it installed it on my C: drive. I wanted to install it on
> my
> E: drive where I have version 5.9. I uninstalled it and went tried to
> reinstall it paying close attention where I had the opportunity to change
> the drive to install to. I never say or was given the chance to.
> It appears that AOL assumes it will be installed on everyones C: drive. I
> thought it would automatically install over version 5.9 which is on my E:
> drive.
> Does anyone know how to change the default install drive to another drive?
> I've installed and uninstalled twice so far and until I can find out how
> to
> change drives I'll stick with my current version.
> TIA
> Dave Schroeder
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