How to prevent installers from placing temporary files on the root of a disk?

Question

System administration

often in the root of the disk with the largest percentage of free space there are traces of the installer, apparently from microsoft.
How to redirect the temporary folder for these types of installers to another location?

Answer 1

Well, theoretically, you can try to fix the TEMP and TMP environment variables, but most likely it will not help. The installer selects the drive on which it will create its temporary directory according to a rather strange algorithm - sometimes it's C, sometimes it's E...

Answer 2

If disabled, these installers will stop working. Normal installers already use %temp%.