Sunday, February 17, 2013

How to Change Default Location for Installing Software

Generally when we Install a new software or some other thing, By-default the location is " C drive".

We need to define the path again and again for every installation if we wants to get the software  installed at some othe location. To avoid this process every time, We can change the values in registry to make Specified Path as a Default Path. By following the Steps below
  1. Open the registry by opening run and write " regedit " in it, now Registry will open .
  2. Open " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath "
  3. In the SourcePath enter a value/ Path which you want  make it a Default Location.
  4. From now on-wards, when ever you install a software it will gets installed in the location at which you have specified.

How To Disabe Display of Drives in My Computer

  •  Press " windows + r ", then Regestry will be opened
  •  Then goto " HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "
  •  Now in the right pane create a new ' DWORD ' item and name it as NoDrives. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal)
  •  Now press F5 to refresh. When you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown. To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item. To display the drives back once again...