Windows 10: Theres a way to change TEMP & TMP directorys and still can use the troubleshooter?

So I have a SSD only for the windows and programs and a HDD for the rest of my files, the SSD was almost full so I decided to change the TEMP and TMP folder to the HDD that had a lot of empty space... Problem is, after that microsoft store isn't working and gives me the error 0x8007000D, and when i try to use the windows troubleshooter it isn't working too and gives me the error 0x80070003.
I searched a little on foruns and saw ppl saying to change back my temp folders because it causes the troubleshooting error, but i really need to keep it on my HDD, is there a way to make troubleshooting and store work without changing back my temp folders to "C:/"?

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Issues After Moving Windows TEMP & TMP Directories

#1) On another drive I created two new folders. <path 1>/TEMP folder for the user account & a separate <path 2>/TEMP folder for the system. I changed the paths of the existing TEMP / TMP directories to these new folders in the environment variables area of windows. The existing user account TEMP / TMP pointed to the same directory. The same applies to the system folders (but a different path than the user account)
#2) I did not delete any existing folders
#3) I rebooted
#4) I cannot see if windows kept the old directories or not. This account is not an elevated admin at the moment.

I am not sure what why would you need to copy the contents of the temp directory? Windows will recreate them as required. You can routinely delete everything in these folders that windows will allow you to and it will recreate whatever it requires.

 

Issues After Moving Windows TEMP & TMP Directories

To save space on my OS drive, I moved both the user account & system TEMP / TMP folder locations to a larger drive. I rebooted & tested the effects for a few days. Windows itself has not given me any noticeable issues. But I have noticed at least two programs that do not like this change. Malwarebytes & an addon for Firefox called Save Images.

The issue with MB is with the "right click" context menu in Windows. When the TEMP/TMP folders are moved, MB will not respond at all to using the right click context menu to scan an individual file or folder. It simply does nothing. Performing the same action, AVG Free is not affected at all. It performs normally.

The Firefox addon is an image downloader. You simply right click on the page with the images that you want to download & it will open them all on a seperate tab to view & then download. The issue with it after the TEMP/TMP folder move is that when you try to load the images into the new tab, Firefox will open a new tab, but instead of image files laid out on the page, there will be a list of all the top level file folders on the drive where I put the TEMP/TMP directories. A similar image downloader in Chrome is not affected. So it is software specific.

I asked on the MB forum what can I do to make MB behave normally with my changes & the response was that there was no way at this time.

To the point, please help me to understand why do these programs have issues with the TEMP/TMP folders being moved if Windows knows where they are. Windows after all is the "enviroment" in which these programs operate. Is it not in charge of "directing traffic" for all the information back and forth on your system?

Can anything be done on my end to help these programs work as intended with my changes?

 

Temp and TMP and Temporary Internet Files locations

You may also change this in the registry but I wouldn't advise it unless you know exactly what you are doing. Make sure you back up your registry and computer first before you make any changes to the system of this kind of nature. Here is how to do this.

Win + R then type regedit in the run box. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_USER and expand it. Look down this list and find CONTROL PANEL, expand it and click on Environment. You will see key entries TMP and Temp on the right. Select then right click on them and select
modify. Change them to, for example: F:\Temp, or which ever drive you wish to use as a temp drive. Make sure that you change the value for both TMP and Temp.