How do I get programs to install on another drive?

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kingswill

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I'm new to the whole SSD and HDD thing, and I'm having a few issues.

The SSD is the OS/boot drive, and the HDD is the D: drive (its completely empty)
How do I install programs onto the HDD? I know how to download files onto the D: drive, but the issue I'm having is, when I download the "Lightshot" (screenshot software) installer, even though it's on the D: drive, it installs to the C: drive. The installer doesn't let me choose where to install. This is a major problem, because there's not much space left on my SSD.

I'm on windows 10 (64 bit), so a lot of the guides I've found have not helped.

I have absolutely no idea what to do.
 
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Well...as above, you can change the settings on that application.

Also, look at your restore point settings, hibernation, pagefile, etc.
They may be taking up needless space.
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There are programs that will ONLY allow themselves to be installed on the C:\ partition. Lightshot may very well be one of those. Have you encountered this issue with virtually all other programs that you've tried to download/install or is this a unique situation?
 
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No, I believe this happens to few programs. It just depends. A lot of programs allow the custom/advanced install, and just as many do not allow it and just install on the C: drive without asking.

So, I guess the only thing I can do is uninstall all programs on the C: drive that allow me to choose where to install, and then install them all on the HDD? Because at this point, sooner or later, my SSD will have no more free space. I suppose I could buy a higher storage SSD once it comes to that. But I was seriously hoping to get around this issue.
 
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Lightscreen is a small tool to automate the process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with a hotkey and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences.

If you look at he picture in this link:
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http://lightscreen.com.ar/

You change the directory drive letter to D from C.
 
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Let's look at other issues:
What size is the SSD?
How much free space do you have?
What OS?
 
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The SSD capacity is 118 GB. There's only 40 GB's, there are quite a few big programs on it, however, I do plan on uninstalling them, but even then it wouldn't really be more than a couple of GB's.
The OS is Windows 10 Home (64 Bit). Its updated to the lastest, there are no further updates for anything else as of now.
 
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