How to modify the default installation path of Windows 8 application

Maybe you haven't adapted a lot of changes to Windows 8, but from a user experience point of view, at least one of Windows 8 is better, that is the app store. This is a widely used form in Apple systems and smartphones. The app store integrates the search, purchase, download, and installation of applications. Users can easily access applications, plus synchronization, and install them themselves. The history of the application can be found.
Win8 App Store

Where is the Windows 8 app installed?

It’s convenient to get apps from the Windows Store, but you can’t choose the installation path for these apps, even many people can’t find them. Where is the installed app? Xiaobian I didn't know where these applications were installed. After I checked them online, I realized that the applications in the Windows Store were installed in the hidden directory of the system partition X:/Program Files<WindowsApps”.

Note 1: To display the hidden folder, click on the “View”-“Options> on the File Explorer, switch to the “View” tab and select &ldquo in the advanced settings. ;Show hidden files, folders, and drives”.
Windows 8 applications are here

The Windows 8 application after installation is also different from our common ones. The folder name is quite long, and the company name, software name, version number and other information are displayed on the folder name. It even includes some (temporarily not clear what it means) random strings.

Note 2: Access to the application folder may require access rights, as described below.
Windows 8 application folder name is very long

Modify Win8 application installation path

After knowing the Windows8 application installation location, you may think another question, how to change the application installation path Why? Why do you think about changing the installation path, mainly because of disk partition space. Xiaobian did not install a lot of applications, has used more than 2G space, and now there are a lot of applications in the app store, especially like some games, hundreds of MB or even GB have appeared, the system disk space is easy to be consumed Do it. Therefore, installing the application to a larger disk partition is the solution.
Xiaobian's Win8 application has exceeded 2GB

However, Windows 8 applications have no user intervention during the installation process. How can I modify the installation path? After some efforts, I finally let Xiaobian Found a solution (thanks to askvg.com for sharing this method), please look down.

Since you can't change the path during the installation process, you should find the method from the source, such as directly changing the system default installation path. This path is saved in the registry, press [Win+R] to open the run, enter regedit to start the registry editor, and locate the following key values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppx

on the right The window finds “PackageRoot”, pay attention to its data value is the default installation path for Windows8 applications.
Win8 application installation path setting

The next thing to do is to change its data value and change it to the location you want. But when you finish editing and click OK, you will receive the following prompt:
You don't have permission to modify

So we need to get the permission of Appx first, you can change the path after getting the permission. .
Modify application default path

Note 3: Changing the default installation path of Windows 8 application will cause the installed application to fail to upgrade, because the old and new versions have inconsistent paths, so if you decide to change the application installation path, please First uninstall all Windows 8 built-in and third-party applications, and then re-install after changing the path.

Page 3 Attachment: Win8 permission acquisition method

For files or folders, right-click properties, security tags; for registry keys, right-click permissions; follow-up operations are basically the same: select &ldquo Administrators in group or user name, click on Advanced below;
Change permissions on administrator account

In the newly opened window, click on the above “Change”;
Change Owner

Then enter the login username of the machine in the input box at the bottom of the new window and click “check name”, then click on the confirmation of each window to close them.
Enter the local login user name here

Go back to the original permissions window, check the permissions of the Administrators <; Full Control & rdquo;, and finally go back to the folder or the registry.
Get full control permissions