Comments on: Change Default Installation Folder For Windows Apps

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:50:15 +0000

In reply to Kevin. Yes, open regedit before you make changes and go to file then Export. it will export your entire regedit files then if something went wrong you can just import that copy.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 12:47:55 +0000

I did this after reimaging my laptop and it worked!!!!.
and windows updates ran fine.
Those of you that are saying windows update doesn’t work makes no sense. You are not changing where the windows update installs. And you didn’t have the common knowledge to backup your regedit. So I don’t think you know much about regedit file I also don’t think you all did it correctly
I had no issues with windows update. all my programs are installing in my 1TB drive instead of my 128 SSD hosting windows. only thing that installs on the ssd are windows update and certain drivers.

By: Usman Khurshid

Usman Khurshid — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:04:20 +0000

In reply to Rouve. To undo the changes, go to the same Registry key and change the contents of ProgramFilesDir to C:\Program Files and ProgramFilesDir(x86) to C:\Program Files (x86).

By: Rouve

Rouve — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:32:04 +0000

In reply to marcuscole2. How can I undo this?? Nothing works, I cannot access anything!!!!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 02:00:57 +0000

In reply to Kevin. Can you roll back?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:58:10 +0000

Hello there. Does this actually work?

By: Ayla

Ayla — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:05:10 +0000

In reply to andres. Wow this is the best answer... SYMLINKS are the coolest!

By: andres

andres — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:10:08 +0000

for those of you looking for a solution or just to get more free space on your small SSD. It’s so much better to get a symbolic link just look for “Symbolic link Windows” on google.

While this article works you must ensure to move ALL the program files (x86) and program files to the other folder/drive affecting performance and windows updates. Is not really recommended unless you have time to mess around and fixing breaking links.

Try this, this will move a folder ONLY. I had to do this after having visual studio which takes around 60gb or more on my 128gb SSD Drive

For Begineers: https://foldermove.com/

By: Alecse Catalin

Alecse Catalin — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 12:44:38 +0000

I did this because i was running out of space on my /C drive trying to install a Forza Horizon 4 , so far so good , will come back later with updates in case something won’t work right :-) . Thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 01:51:19 +0000

In reply to Usman Khurshid. So I actually did this and yes, it pretty much ruined Windows. RegEdit does not open, Edge doesn't open, Chrome (which I had installed previously) does not open. Explorer works, but a lot of Windows tools are broken even if they aren't installed in Program Files because they depend on frameworks and such that are there. I can't even run a system recovery because it freezes as soon as I click "Get started".