Best practice guide to install to Program Files

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Published on 2014-08-22T08:40:52Z Indexed on 2014/08/22 10:21 UTC
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Have seen quite a few questions in Serverfault and Super User but none that specifically answers my question.

We have an application that is being provided and installed by a third party company. They are charging market rate 'consultancy' fee to do this.

They installed majority of the folders in the root of the C drive, to my shock.

Are there any official Microsoft Best Practice guides out there to say applications should be installed in Program Files.

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