**Why is Python installed to C drive by default? **
All software is installed to the c drive by default if you do not set the path of the installation process, not just Python.
**Does the installation to the c drive have any effect? **
For computers with powerful C drive capacity and performance, the installation on which drive is the same does not matter.
But for users who can use the computer, it is best to set the installation path, otherwise your computer will get stuck.
**How to install to a path other than the c drive? **
You can pay attention to the path setting interface during the installation process. When entering the path setting interface, you can change the path to a path other than the c drive.
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Python can be installed in any system disk, there is no mandatory requirement, the default path is installed in the C drive. Why is the default installation location of the software on the C drive? Let's talk about it below.
First of all, you need to be clear. If the operating system is installed on the D drive, you will find that few software will automatically recognize the system path and display the default installation location of the D drive. However, some software will display the C drive, which is related to the software installation package. .
Therefore, the C drive is not absolute, but it must be the tacit understanding of many software developers. Those software that can automatically identify the system partition and default to the installation location of the system disk is to respect the design of the Windows system.
There are also softwares like Tencent products that automatically detect the installation directory and create sub-directories, but there are only a small part of the installation steps with such a user-friendly design.
In Windows system: Program Files and Program Files (x86) are used to store the program body, ProgramData and %user%/appdata are used to store the program data.
When there is a problem with your program itself, you only need to reinstall the program, and your user data will still be saved.
When you want to restore the program settings, you only need to delete the program configuration file from ProgramData or %user%/appdata to restore the program to its initial settings.
The program writes the software information and the path of the uninstallation program to the corresponding registry location during the installation process, so that the program can be managed uniformly through the control panel.
**Can the software be installed on the C drive? **
Let me talk about why many users choose the latter between the software installation on C drive and D drive.
One reason: N years ago, the hard disk capacity was not as massive as it is now. 20G can be called a large-capacity hard disk in the era. The computer's C drive is used as the system disk, and there is basically no space after installing the operating system. , So people’s habit at that time was to install the software on a non-system disk, so as to avoid insufficient virtual memory because the remaining space of the system disk was too small (the physical memory capacity in those days was not as scary as it is now, and there are also 256M running xp, running For large software, such as games, virtual memory is still necessary.)
The second reason: Some people have said that the operating system is not bad, it will always hang, and windows is not like a Unix-like environment, you can still play around after it hangs, maybe it will be up, windows hangs After that, most people at that time, including the so-called "masters", adopted the simple and rude but the most effective way to reinstall the system disk. Backing up your personal files is a problem at this time. There were not many easy-to-use system maintenance environments to choose from. (Basically all are DOS. One is that the interface of this thing is not so friendly, and the other is that the system crashes when you use it. It is definitely not a matter of a day or two. Without a file manager, it can be as small as hundreds or thousands. Copying files from the system disk to another drive letter is not easy).
Now, we are in good time. The hardware configuration has been greatly improved, which makes the system disk space less and less. You can allocate more space for the C drive to install software on the C drive. And there are many easy-to-use system maintenance environments, which are basically PE-based, using CD or U disk or network boot, and many motherboard manufacturers have also developed some BIOS-based system maintenance environments due to the surge in BIOS capacity. Quite powerful. Therefore, this matter can be forgotten, and there is no need to force yourself to install the software in other partitions.
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