How to change the default installation location of Win8 store application

The Win8 app store has more and more excellent apps, and the capacity is getting bigger and bigger. Appears of your favorite apps will be the first time. download. These applications are automatically saved in the system partition after downloading and installing. After a long time, we will find that the system disk is getting smaller and smaller, which will have a significant impact on the processing speed of the system. Therefore, for the health of the system, it is recommended that you modify the default location of the application installation to keep the machine efficient.

The default location of the Win8 app store is "C:Program FilesWindowsApps”, this folder is a hidden item, you need to open the show hidden items to see the folder. So how do you modify the default installation location of the Win8 application? Let's move on.

Use Win+R to open the “Run” window or type regedit in the “Search Bar” to open the registry.

After entering the registry, navigate to the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppx

You can see the default installation location information for the store at this time

Right-click Appx on the left and select Permissions

In the Permission Settings screen that opens, click on the Advanced Settings option in the above image

In the Advanced Security Settings screen, select the principal named TrustedInstaller in the permission bar, and then click the change to the right of the owner above

at the name of the object to be selected. Enter the username and click on the check name on the right

The username will be displayed automatically

Click OK to return to the advanced security settings screen. , you will find that the owner has become your modified username

Click Apply and OK, then return to the permission settings interface, check the full control permissions of the Administrators user group

Then return to the registry to modify the default installation location. After this modification, the application in the Win8 app store will be installed to the location you specified.

However, for an already installed Windows 8 application, an error will be displayed during the update. In this case, simply uninstall the installed application and then reinstall it.