BluePrince

I found the solution posted somewhere deep in the Forum. I thin Adim should post this where it can easily be found. An easier to follow instruction with pictures(For both Cabinstl and Regedit) So that people who have no clue can fully understand. I would but I'm too lazy.


you can use a software called cabinstl as well. It allows the installation of cab files to whatever folder you want or you can modify the registry so that it will always prompt for an installation path

Taken from one of the thread in aximsite.

1. Changing installation path on SD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apps\Microsoft Application Installer

default: "fAskDest"=dword:00000000

modified: "fAskDest"=dword:00000001

default: "fAskOptions"=dword:00000000

modified: "fAskOptions"=dword:00000001

This one's not needed, but since the odd developer still releases multi-processor compiled CEF files (universal PPC installers, a sort of super-CAB file) this seemed worth modifying.

default: "fEnableCef"=dword:00000000

modified: "fEnableCef"=dword:00000001

This last one's related to the auto-deletion of CAB files after installing, something which happens if the CAB is not marked Read Only in the file's properties. With this modification it is not necessary to mark files Read Only, as they will not be deleted unless you select to do so manually after installing.

default: "nDynamicDelete"=dword:00000002

modified: "nDynamicDelete"=dword:00000000