[Wine] Easily changing directory where program files should be installed to by default?

Gert van den Berg gert at mohag.net
Sat Jan 2 16:22:18 CST 2010


On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 13:17, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear Wine users,
>
>
> installing a Windows program the program’s installer should look up some
> registry entry(?) (ProgramFiles [2]) what folder to use to install the
> program files into. For Englisch installations this is normally `C:
> \Program Files` in my home directory.
>
> I have small space left in my home directory, so I would like to install
> the program files in a different location, for example drive D: on a
> different partition, by default. [2] says that this registry entry
> cannot be changed using `winecfg` and `regedit` has to be used. It would
> be awesome if this option could be added to `winecfg` for easy change.
>
> Searching for »winecfg program files« in Bugzilla [3] I could not find a
> report/request for this. Should I create a bug report?
>
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/WINEPREFIX might be what you are
actually looking for....



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