How do I change the location for temporary files?

A. The are a number of "temp" variables, mainly temp and tmp and the values of these can be changed as follows:

Alternatively you can directly edit the registry to make these changes

A final method from the command line is to use the SET command

C:> set temp=d:temp

Most Windows applications such as Word check the variable 'tmp' for the location of temporary files and not 'temp' so make sure you modify 'tmp' and not just 'temp'.