CHANGE DEFAULT LOCATION FOR PROGRAMS AND COMMON FILES

To change the default location for the Program Files and/or Common Files folders, open Registry Editor and

go to the following key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

ProgramFilesDir=C:\Program Files

Change this entry to another path if you want to change where Windows points to by default when

installing new programs.

CommonFilesDir=D:\Dev\Program Files\Common Files

Change this entry to another path if you want to change where Windows points to by default when

installing common files for programs. Reboot Windows to bring the changes into effect. Keep in mind that

using this tweak may result in problems with existing installed programs and file associations.

That concludes the Windows Explorer section.

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