[MicroPsycho]

I recently partitioned my hardrive, one small partition for windows/my documents and the other for everything else. is there any way I can set one drive as default so that when I install something it automatically chooses D:\ (the larger partion) instead of C:\programfiles, the default partition?

[karajorma]

There's probably a registry setting for that. Buggered if I know what it is though.

[SadisticSid]

Not really, programs like InstallShield are hardwired to default paths. If you're so put out by this, make a mountpoint or shortcut to your second disk so all you have to do is insert a few characters and an extra backslash into C:\Program Files\{shortcut name like D}\Program Directory.

[pyro-manic]

I think you can do something like that. I'm pretty sure I read about it a while back on www.msfn.org - it's a big site, but I was looking at the unattended install stuff, so it might be in there somewhere. You might have to set it up during the install with a batch file or something, but I seem to remember thinking about it.