How to really specify installation path? Later adjustment possible?

[pstein]

During installaion procedure of PSP 2020 I told PSP to use the following installation path:

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D:\tools\graphic\PSP2020\

After installation was successfully finished I noticed that PSP appended a couple of own subfolders. In reality PSP was installed in

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D:\tools\graphic\PSP2020\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2020 (64-bit)\

I hate long paths and I dislike software which arbitrarily overwrites my instructions.
Is there a way to tell PSP to not append other stuff to my installation path?

I guess just moving the PSP installation two folders upwards does not work.

But is there a working other way to later adjust the path in Registry and/or config files?

Where exactly (branches and keys) are all PSP settings stored in Registry?

[LeviFiction]

For the current user -
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Corel\PaintShop Pro\<PSPVERSION>

2023 is X15 so 2020 would be X12

Since I use a separate admin user I can't use the CurrentUser option. Registry Editor requires that I open it as admin so the current user is admin. I have to use HKEY_USERS\MYUSERID\SOFTWARE|Corel\PaintShop Pro\<PSPVERSION>

I cannot find a reference to where PSP is stored, but it does have the DefaultWrite key which is where PSP creates the user resources folders.

I think the biggest issue is with the explorer commands they've registered the location with. These are defined by Windows and will point to DLLs within the PSP folder. Those will need to be updated.

[lata]

If you had selected D:/ as the path
Then D:\Corel\Corel PaintShop Pro 2020 (64-bit) would be used

Other PSP versions would be installed to D:\Corel