PEAR on Windows: How to change pear.ini location

Question

I am trying to install a PEAR package into my recent XAMPP PHP installation (PHP 5.3.1) on Windows 7 64-bit.

Installing new packages fails because PEAR tries to access <

Answer 1

Another way is edit your windows system environment and add PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR variable pointing to php's dir.