Windows 10: Change Save Location for New Apps in Windows 10

Thank you Mr Brink.
Normally I might have remembered there could be 'hidden folders'..cross-eyed from 10 hours of trying to get 'Clean Install' to work.

But I guess I assumed W10 would close that off.

Where is the 'Show hidden' option hidden?

 

I hear that Eliot.

Step 5 in OPTION ONE of the tutorial below can help show you where it's at. *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9...dows-10-a.html

 

I too have an SSD and a 1TB hard drive in a custom PC that I just recently finished and all the apps I download are installing onto my SSD, which I prefer not to use for all of these minor applications. Is there any idea when the option to choose app save location will return?

 

Hello Madhat11, and welcome to Ten Forums.

I'm afraid that there's no official timeline given. Only that it will return at some point.

 

Well that sucks....can't install fable legends because i don't have enough space on my ssd... starting to regret this "upgrade"

 

UPDATE:

Changing the save location for where new apps from Store will install to works again in build 10576.

 

my C:\ is my ssd. i'm stuck having everything attempting to go on to it. i spent days meticulously stripping down my OS on my hard disk and compressing and defraging to save all the space i could. and then this trash.

 

Hello GuestLogin,

I'm not sure what you mean. This feature works now in the Windows 10 TH2 release.

 

My SD card does not show up on the storage and save location list but an external hard drive does? what is the problem?

 

Hello ichilouch, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

I just test with a SD card, and it was recognized on my system to select for app storage.

You may need to format it first. My SD was only 8GB, and was formatted with FAT32.

 

Thank you for the help. I changed by SD card format from NTFS to FAT32 and it got recognized.

 

I'm having some problems with this. I have an HP Stream 7 with TH2 installed. I can select to save all new apps to the SD card but when they try to install, I get Error 0x80070006. If I change it back to install on the C drive, the app installs and works with no problems. Thanks for any help in fixing this.

 

Hello sprtfan, *Smile

You might see if formatting the SD card may allow you to afterwards.

 

I'll give that a try. In the mean time I figured out how to move the app to the SD card after it was installed on C. I didn't realize that you had the option to move some apps by going to Settings =>System=>Apps and Features. I was able to install the apps on C, and then move them to my SD card. So far everything seems to be working but it would be easier to just install them directly to the SD card. This works well at least. Thanks

 

Hi there,

I have just built my first computer, and it's running Windows 10 64 bit Home with an SSD (C drive) and a WD HDD (D drive).

I think I originally had apps set to be saved onto the D drive, but I have changed the settings to put them onto the SSD (C drive) so they will load faster.

There is now an empty folder on the HDD (D drive) called "WindowsApps", which I was assuming Windows created as I had originally selected that drive to save the apps to.

I was going to delete the folder but I get a "Folder Access Denied" pop-up window, containing "You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from SYSTEM to make changes to this folder."

Should I just leave it be? *Huh