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FlasH
25-10-10, 17:51
Hey All,

Actually spending time setting up my gaming/rendering rig now as I'll be using it a lot more now I'm teaching myself Solidworks 2010.

I've got a 40GB SSD that currently only has 1 Steam game, the OS (obviously) and Office 2010. Now what I want to do is change the location of the 'Program Files' to my 750GB Samsung F3 HDD. How would I go about doing this if it's at all possible?

My OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Gav
25-10-10, 17:56
Should be a key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion called ProgramFilesDir
FlasH
25-10-10, 18:00
I believe what you are saying is correct however as I'm using 64 bit will that not work?
Gav
25-10-10, 18:16
Try it and see? :p there might be 2 keys in there, one for 32 bit programs and one for 64 bit programs.
FlasH
25-10-10, 18:29
Just read an article saying if I do try it I will most likely stop the current programs installed from working correctly.

Guess its the manual method then! Thanks for help though Gav.
Mr Moose
25-10-10, 18:36
Just read an article saying if I do try it I will most likely stop the current programs installed from working correctly.

Guess its the manual method then! Thanks for help though Gav.

Yea I had that problem. That nothing would work. But I re-edited all the other things over like user profile downloads music... You get the picture
Faisal
25-10-10, 19:50
Just read an article saying if I do try it I will most likely stop the current programs installed from working correctly.

Guess its the manual method then! Thanks for help though Gav.

Remember you don't have to have everything perfect, if something's going to take a hell of a hassle or risk to do just stick with what you got, it'll only take a few more clicks :).

I remember trying to uninstall Windows Media Player 12 and installing Windows Media Player 11 instead on my Windows 7 machine, when I manually uninstalled WMP12 the WMP11 installer still thought WMP12 was installed so it never let me install the downgraded version, I spent ages trying to make it not think it was installed and when I finally did WMP11 just refused to run so I decided to reinstall WMP12 and now that refused to run to so I ended up with two corrupt media players which never worked, I had to system restore to get everything back to normal and now I carry on using WMP12.

I got nothing out of attempted to do that and I lost 4 hours of my life :(.