Moving iTunes Program to C: drive, but leaving the music there?

Hello,
I currently have my music library as well as the iTunes application on an external disk. This worked fine for occasionally syncing my iPod music library.
However, I now have an iPhone and would like to move the application to my c: drive, so that I don't have to connect the external drive to sync non-music data.
How can I move the application locally and leave the music on the external disk?
Thanks in advace for your help!

iTunes the application normally installs to the system drive. I don't think there is much you can do about that. If you've only moved the media folder however then see make a split library portable as there is probably data that can be usefully moved.
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