Default unzip drive and temp folder

When you install any updates, patches or Service Packs of Microsoft Products it begins by temporarily explode (you say it unzip, which is not) in a drive which has maximum free space available with folder name created using random letters & numbers and then starts installation after exploding completely. After installation this folder gets automatcally deleted. May be in the computer where you are installing the OS intreprets that the P Drive is having maximum free space whicc is a network mapped drive which is the case normally if you are in a Large Organization.

When you install any updates, patches or Service Packs of Microsoft Products it begins by temporarily explode (you say it unzip, which is not) in a drive which has maximum free space available with folder name created using random letters & numbers and then starts installation after exploding completely. After installation this folder gets automatcally deleted. May be in the computer where you are installing the OS intreprets that the P Drive is having maximum free space which is a network mapped drive which is the case normally if you are in a Large Organization.

Yes, it installs correctly, that is NOT the problem, the problem is :How do I change the Path so that any default unzip directory will point to C:? Thanks,

Jeff

I tell you what, why don't you just post with a Full Stop and we'll fill in all the CORRECT DETAILS for you. I mean- we'd have more chance of getting the question right than you appear to have done.

[i]I was at this point going to insert a long-winded account of instances from your previous entries to show where you totally ignored what you were told, and continued to harp on about 'zipped files and unzipping zipped files" - [b]when at no point have you actually HAD a zipped file[/b] - but I couldn't see the point.[/i]

Yet here we are, at the 12th entry in this thread, and you suddenly introduce the concept that the TEMP directory can be influenced by the Registry.

Do I take it that Zipped and Unzipped files are now no longer of any concern? That you now appreciate that Service Pack 3 is not IN a Zipped File? Have you ever actually looked IN or FOR the Temp Directory?

Because if you had you would already know that it is already sitting in the Windows Directory on the C:\ drive. Where did you get the idea you HAD to knife&fork the Registry?

Let's just recap here:
#1. You have NOT been unzipping SP3.
#2. You don't choose where SP3 decompresses to.
#3. The 'Temp' directory already exists where you intend putting it.
#4. You don't need to mutilate the Registry to move the already existing directory.

Would you like to change tack now for either 'PRINT SPOOLER' or 'UNZIP TO:' ? [i]Both of which we've already covered up above.[/i]

My reply clearly states that if you are installing any microsoft patches including service pack they will automatically select a drive which is having the most amount of free space available and then the temp foder will bw deleted after the installation is complete and trhe machine is restarted/rebooted. You most probably can't change the temp folder location. After installation Microsoft keeps a copy of old files, uninstalltion scripts and some new files, etc. in some particular folders in the Windows Directory for any uninstallation, if required, in future
I would like to mention here that even other softwares/applications/servers installation also behave like this by design. One of them Oracle Database Server installation, in which the default installation folder is in a drive with the maximum space on the system, unless you change it.
If you are using Winzip, then only you can ZIP and UNZIP, in which there is a provision/option/preference to change the location of the temporary folder it uses for its operation.