Windows 10: Enable or Disable Moving User App Data in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Moving User App Data in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes in Windows 10


In Windows 10, users can move their installed Windows apps from the Microsoft Store to another drive.

The default location is This PC on the Windows C: drive (system volume) in the %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps (apps) and %LocalAppData%\Packages (user app data) folders.

If you like, you can allow or prevent users' app data from moving to another location when an app is moved or installed on another location.

If prevented, all users' app data will stay on the system volume, regardless of where the app is installed.

If allowed, then when an app is moved to a different volume, the users' app data will also move to this volume.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable users' app data from moving to another location when an app from the Microsoft Store is moved or installed on another location in Windows 10.

*Warning You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable moving user app data.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Enable or Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes in Local Group Policy Editor

*note The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Two below.
1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2. In the left pane of Local Group Policy Editor, navigate to the location below. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\App Package Deployment




3. In the right pane of App Package Deployment in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Prevent users' app data from being stored on non-system volumes policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4. Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes for All Users
A) Select (dot) Not Configured or Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

*note Not Configured is the default setting.

6. To Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes for All Users
A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)




7. When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor.

8. Restart the computer to apply.





OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx

RestrictAppDataToSystemVolume DWORD

0 or delete = Enable
1 = Disable


1. Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Enable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes for All Users
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Allow_user_app_data_to_be_stored_on_non-system_drives.reg

Download

3. To Disable Moving User App Data to Non-system Volumes for All Users
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Prevent_user_app_data_to_be_stored_on_non-system_drives.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, OK (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. Restart the computer to apply.

8. If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Move Apps to another Drive in Windows 10
• How to Change Location where New Apps will Install and Save to in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable Changing Apps Save Location in Windows 10

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Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

If not the best way to do that but at least the way I recommend:

• "Empty" your user profile folders as much as you can, copying documents, pics, videos, music and all other personal data from all user profiles to external HDD. As following steps require you to relocate Users folder two times, the less data is left in user profile folders, the faster the relocation process. Important: Leave system folder AppData for each profile intact, do not empty / move its content!
• Reverse the relocating, doing exactly as told in tutorial Method Two but this time relocating Users folder back to C: drive
• Shut down the PC, replace the disk where you had Users relocated
• Mount the new disk, boot to Windows, assign new disk the same drive ID letter than the old one had
• Again, do as told in Method Two, now relocating Users to new disk
• Restore the backed up personal user data from external drive to respective folders under each user profile

 

Windows Phone users Clubhouse

I think I'll put a list of people's favourite apps in the OP, starting with my own until I get some suggestions, but you can take a look at the Windows Phone app store at the top apps to see what's popular Windows Phone-Apps – Microsoft Store

You are both now added, welcome! *Toast :toast:

 

Windows 10 User Error

First, make a clone or backup of all his disks.
Second, run a disk check for errors.
Then, start playing with moving his user profile to a new one or trying to repair it.
And, you may want to look at some of the tutorials on the web for doing an in place upgrade without losing data, apps, or programs for his version of OS.

EDIT: You may want to take a look here --> Repair Windows User Profile data & settings with ReProfiler
ReProfiler website: IWR Consultancy

 

how to move data on pc hd to external hd and back to repair lost admin password in windows 10

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Let me help you.

• 
  Are you able to copy and paste the data from one location to another?
  
• 
  Do you receive any error code while moving the files to external HD?
  

I suggest you to go through the following troubleshooting steps and check if it helps.

Kindly try to start your computer in Safe mode from the Windows Recovery Environment.

Please refer to the below link to start the computer in Safe mode.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-8/windows-startup-settings-safe-mode

Note: The steps for Windows 8.1 applies to Windows 10.



Once you have entered into the Safe mode then, open Command Prompt and enable Built in Administrator.

Follow the below steps to enable Built in Administrator:

• 
  Open Command Prompt from
  Windows Recovery Environment.
  
• 
  Copy and paste the below command and press Enter.
  
  net user administrator /active:yes
  
• 
  Close the Command Prompt.
  
• 
  Try to login though Built in Administrator and change the earlier password or you can create new user account.
  

Keep us posted on the issue. We will be happy to assist you further.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

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