Default Install somewhere other than C: Drive

Having a new machine built with SSD (Solid State Drive) as C:drive solely for Win 7 OS.  Is there a way to load Lightroom and tell it to load  ALL of its files onto the D drive.  Catalog etc.  It seems to want to default to C no matter what.  I dont want the machine reading, writing to the Solid State Drive all the time.   Im going to put all programs onto D and E internal HD.  Or do I have to move the catalog after I load Lightroom.    I dont recall it asking me where to put the catalog the first time I loaded it  (v3.3)

Ive did some research on Moving the USER file....it seems to be a big deal to windows....involved setting up link files deep within the command line interface etc.  May be to much for me to mess with.  And Ive read it also messes up Windows Update if you get to messing with moving the User file off C: drive.   This is a Microsoft failing in its file system.   Perhaps in the coming Win 8  they will finally get an up to date File System.   With thest new type SSD drives becoming more popular we need to be able to move all the user type stuff off these drives.  Would like to have an SSD system with only the OS and let the USER file and some miscellaneous random file adjustments be located on a regular HD.
In fact I would think they could look to putting a blank slot in the motherboard and we could buy Windows on a ROM chip or little insertable board and just plug and play.  Let all the miscellaneous file handling afterwards be pointed to any drive you had.  But the OS would be hard coded on the ROM.   They could put Win OS on a locked down SD card type device and just insert it.  Bang....new OS and in hardware.   

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