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Windows Installer using usb drive for temp purposes

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20266307 views
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Problem

When installing apps that are built around Windows Installer, it would appear that it often uses my external usb hard disk (when it's connected) as the temp location while it expands and installs the application (creates a folder off the root with a guid name). Is there anyway to change this so it …

Error Output

TEMP=C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\<me>\AppData\Local\Temp

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Fix for: Windows Installer using usb drive for temp purposes

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I believe that the Windows Installer uses the environment variable. You may want to check this value and see if it happens to be pointing to your External HD drive letter. UPDATE Weird... this does seem to be a "feature" of Windows Installer (to use…

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