How to change the default installation path of games and their data?

Question

Windows

Hello ladies and gentlemen!
On Windows, games are installed by default in C:\Games\game_name , and their data is in C:\ProgramData\game_name. How (possibly using the register) to make the games installed in D:\Games\game_name , and their data in D:\ProgramData\game_name and how to make the D:\Games folder open when typing in the %Games% explorer?! Tell me please!!!

PS

Если кому-то важно для чего - для того, чтоб пользователь, которому делаю компьютер не поставил случайно на диск C игры, т. к. там всего 80 Gb

Answer 1

On Windows, games are installed by default in C:\Games\game_name

There is no such silence. For Windows, the game is the same program as the others. Unless otherwise selected manually during installation, the game will be installed in "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)". And like all other programs, the game uses the ProgramData directory when necessary. Well, by the way, the user also has "My Games" in "Documents". The exception is ancient or just crooked installers that put games in hard-coded directories.
Separately, we need to talk about games from stores like Steam. There, the folder for installing games is indicated in the settings of the corresponding application.

Answer 2

How to change the default installation path of games and their data?

Change the installers of the necessary games.

On Windows, games are installed by default in C:\Games\game_name

Not true.
In general, in Windows, all programs should be installed in Program Files.
But some businessmen put them anywhere, they can create folders in the root of the system partition, they can put them somewhere else.

How (perhaps with the help of the register) to make the games installed in D:\Games\game_name

I don’t know what register you are talking about, but where to install it is up to the one who created the installer. Explain to him in which folder to put and that's it.
Or modify the installer yourself.

Answer 3

It depends on the installer.
It is mainly taken from the SYSTEMDRIVE, APPDATA environment variables, but I came across installers in which c:\program files are stupidly packed, and it doesn’t matter, even if there is no such disk at all.
It's easier to create a link c:\games -> d:\games
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/links...
Right click on games in d, remember link source.
Right click on an empty space in c, paste as symbolic link. There shouldn't be a games folder in c.