In Vista, as previous o/s a custom installation of a program allows you to specify where its being installed
Cannot install programs after redirecting documents folder to mapped drive
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After changing the location of the documents folder in Vista to a mapped drive, I am no longer able to install programs - the OS attempts to redirect the install to the location of the documents folder and the install fails.
If I revert the documents folder to its default location, the install of new software is successful.
Vista Business - SP2
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2010-05-26T19:49:46+00:00 Yes, I finally found a solution for this! What worked for me was to redirect the folder using the UNC path instead of a mapped drive letter. I would love to know if this works for others also.
Bikerm1ke,
Thanks for posting on this, I tried what you described, and it worked for me as well!