Moving software program to another drvie?

When downloading software from a disc onto the hard drive, my experience is that it is always downloaded onto your main drive & it never asks if you want to download it onto a different drive (which is always an option if U dnld from internet). Is it possible to move this software after it is downloaded (and have it keep working)? I would like to download some language software but our computer is only 19 GB with 4 left so it would have to go on our external drive.
Thanks.

 

Yes you can move the software you have downloaded to another drive or folder but also you can make your browser ask you where you want to download the file too but it depends on what browser you are using.

To move it you click on the right click on the software and copy and go to the drive or folder you want to move the software too and right click and click on paste and it will copy the software over then you delete the software where you first downloaded it.

 

You need to differentiate downloading from installing. When you d/load a program from the internet you save it to a location of your choosing but it still is not installed until you actually run it. From a disk you are not downloading at all, you are installing, and the default will always be to C:\Program Files\<Program Folder>.

With most software you can change that to some other location of your choice, but if you are running short of space this isn't the best way around the problem. Far better would be to relocate some of your own files to a different drive. The My folders - Documents, Music and so on, have a Location tab on their Properties which you can use to move the entire folder and its subfolders in such a way that your other software, such as Office and so on, knows it has been moved and where to find it.

 

HI, I have moved everything I can move. And yes, I meant install.

 

When installing from a disc it should give you 2 options like express install or custom install. you need custom install that way you can change the folder that you can install the software too including external hard drives.

 

Oh all right. I'll look for that next time. We notmally do custom install to make sure we don't get toolbars etc, but like I siad, I've never seen that on a disc. But it's been a while since I bothered trying that.

 

This is what you need to look for if installing from a disc.