Move LIS for Office 2007 after install

[Alpha]

Is there an easy way to move the local installation source (MSOCache) to a
secondary drive for MS Office 2007 after the install? As it was possible for
MS Office 2003 with the LIS Tool?
I have manually moved the folder to a secondary drive on this Windows XP
SP2 machine, but it is recreated on the C:\ drive after updates.
I looked in the registry but could find no setting that points to the LIS.
Or maybe I did not know where and what to look for.
Regards and TIA.
Alpha
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[dontmesswithbill]

I am looking for this solution as well.

 

[Daddy]

It is possible to move the LIS to another drive or partition, even though
Microsoft officially says it is impossible to do so.

This involves editing the Windows registry -- a dangerous thing to do! You
must backup the registry before you start working in it. Consider yourself
warned.

The LIS is located in a hidden folder called MSOCache. The folder is stored
on the drive where Office 2007 is installed. Let's assume you installed
Office on the C: drive; the path to the LIS is C:\MSOCache.

Open the registry and change each instance of C:\MSOCache to X:\MSOCache,
where X is the drive or partition where you want to re-locate the LIS. To be
safe, all you really need to do is to change the letter C to the letter X.

Once this is done, close the registry editor. Now, copy the LIS from the
root of C to the root of X. Re-start your computer and you should be done.

After restarting your computer, start any one of your Office programs and
see if they complain. If not, you are good to go; now you can delete the
original LIS [C:\MSOCache].

Since every reference to the LIS in the registry points to its new location,
there is nowhere else for Office to look, should you want to repair your
installation or add new features, nor is there any other place for Microsoft
Update to look when installing updates.

Keep in mind that this manoever is totally unsupported by Microsoft,
therefore there is no way to predict what may or may not happen to your
Office installation in the future.

Daddy