Change Published Project Install Directory

I am trying to change the default installation directory of my projects when I publish them, I can change the location to publish to but I seem to have no choice over where the published setup.exe actually puts the program, it usually ends up in a directory like the below:

C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\94AY7RYC.XH4\AQ08EPTM.G5Z\semt..tion_0ca3ba092103ec96_0001.0001_1f0a55976f96 c9dc

Also though not as important, is there anyway of outputing the published project as an MSI rather than a setup.exe and a folderof insallation files? I have seen a couple of suggestions for this but all required additional programs to have to be purchased first.

Any ideas

Many thanks

where else do you want it?

it looks to be a program fro a user stored in their personal and perhaps private folder (user control and all that)

Preferably I would want it installed under Program Files which seems to me to be the most logical place for a program to be installed, all the people who will be using this will be Technicians on their own computers and when I provide revisions to the program I want to make it as easy as possible for them to update the program or the associated INI file.

What version of VB? Years ago I used the free Visual Studio Installer for VB6 projects and you can specify all the install directories when you create a .msi of your project.

The VSI was a free download from Microsoft (probably still is).

Sorry for the late reply, for some reason I did not reiceve the notifucation email of your post.

I use Visual Studio 2010 for my programming

Sorry, I don't know about installer packages for VS2010. There should be some mechanism to control the application install directory in the installer building program.

This is exactly what I'm trying to solve - did you get a solutions.

Cheers,
Dennis,

Unfortunatly no I never did, I just worked out that if I make the directory I publish to be under Program Files then use a directory off of that to store my INI files and associated programs and files that my program needs to access that way I have some level of control over the program

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/206sadcd.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/206sadcd.aspx