Windows 10: Where are Windows Store apps downloaded to?

Discus and support Where are Windows Store apps downloaded to? in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Something very odd is happening. I tried to install a number of Windows Store apps ---- none of them would download, so I thought I would try again... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by clayto, Mar 30, 2016.

  1. clayto Win User

    Where are Windows Store apps downloaded to?


    Something very odd is happening. I tried to install a number of Windows Store apps ---- none of them would download, so I thought I would try again later, it might be a temporary glitch. Then by pure chance I discovered a lot of files from these apps on an external USB drive, drive E, on which I only keep the ISO file from the re-install. They are all together in a folder called Windows apps. None of them will launch from there.

    I know of no reason why they would be in E. I expect Store apps to be somewhere in drive C. Where should they be, and how did they manage to get downloaded to E?

    :)
     
    clayto, Mar 30, 2016
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  2. Where are the downloaded apps from the store located in Windows 10?

    How to CHANGE the location of downloaded apps, even after they have been installed, please?
     
    Reverend Eslam, Mar 30, 2016
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  3. Where are the downloaded apps from the store located in Windows 10?

    I would like to find them and be sure they are their.Also,where can I download Windows Server 2003 OS iso?
     
    bfsgtnhtndrtnfytnfdn, Mar 30, 2016
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  4. Brink
    Brink New Member

    Where are Windows Store apps downloaded to?

    Hello clayto, *Smile

    Store apps are installed to the hidden protected "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" folder by default.
     
    Brink, Mar 30, 2016
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  5. clayto Win User
    Thanks, I will have a look in there. How on earth did the downloads from the Store getin to not only another folder but another drive? I did nothing to change the default download location.
     
    clayto, Mar 30, 2016
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  6. clayto Win User
    PS. I should have said, I am fairly familiar with that folder and should have remembered, as it was very much involved in my efforts to restore the apps which had been trashed by the November update bug.
     
    clayto, Mar 30, 2016
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  7. Brink
    Brink New Member
    Brink, Mar 30, 2016
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  8. clayto Win User

    Where are Windows Store apps downloaded to?

    I have read the tutorial, Thanks.

    When trying to move an app(s) from C to D (my main apps / programs drive) I get this unexpected response: "This drive has apps from another device. To use this drive, the other apps must be deleted. Do you wish to continue?" No is certainly the answer. What is the 'other device' referred to and why cannot apps be moved from C to D? I do not understand this at all.
     
    clayto, Apr 3, 2016
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  9. Brink
    Brink New Member
    It's saying that it can't change storage locations to install new apps on D since you already have apps installed on D without deleting the already installed apps on D first. *Sad
     
    Brink, Apr 3, 2016
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  10. clayto Win User
    Of course but why, since there are several GB of space free on D? So what is stopping it? It is after all a significant limitation apart from being unexplained.
     
    clayto, Apr 3, 2016
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  11. Brink
    Brink New Member
    It appears to be a limitation that won't let you change to that location again if apps were already installed on it unless you delete them first.
     
    Brink, Apr 3, 2016
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  12. davidhk Win User
    davidhk, Apr 5, 2018
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