How To Install App Store Apps In Another Location Than Your C:\ Drive

App Store Apps in another location in Windows 8

How to install App Store Apps in another location in Windows 8 – Most Windows users managed to divide their storage (HDD/SSD) to several drives or partitions. Commonly, those users will then install the main OS in drive C:\ which also commonly partitioned equally with other drives, yet frequently it is partitioned smaller than other. The worst thing, all programs or apps are installed in the system’s drive which in this case is drive C:\. In this article we’ll try a simple quick tip how to change default installation location Windows 8 app store apps. Obviously this tip will be useful if you are download junkie with adventurous soul so you can save some space in your computer’s drive C:\.

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Follow The Steps Below

Step 1. Make sure you firstly close all all the Modern Apps that are running on your Windows 8 computer.

Step 2. Now press Windows key + R on your keyboard to bring up the Run dialog box.

Step 3. Once it appears, type cmdin it then hit Enter.

Step 4. Now issue this command syntax to change the location in your command prompt window:

cd C:\Windows\system32\

Step 5. Now type this command syntax as well then hit Enter to issue it:

takeown /F "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" /A /R

Step 6. So here it is the main command to change installation location for App Store Apps in Windows 8. Change D:\ to another drive letter of your own (where you want to put the apps to).

robocopy "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" "D:\WindowsApps" /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT

Step 7. Next, issue this command syntax as well:

rmdir /S "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps"

Step 8. Final command you have to issue is:

mklink /D "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" "D:\WindowsApps"

Step 9. That’s it. Now you can restart your PC to apply the changes.

Step 10. Congratulation.

So now all available App STore apps are moved to the new location and next time you download and install new app will be also placed there. ENjoy..!