Win10 default installation path modification method

What should I do if the C disk space is small? In this case, we usually need to change the installation path and install the software to the non-C drive when installing the software. However, the default installation path of Win10 is C drive, which makes it difficult to manually select the software every time. Below, the computer Pepsi network will teach a very useful technique, teach you how to modify the Win10 default installation path.

Compared with Win7 system, Win10 changes the default installation path to be much simpler. The specific method is as follows.

1. First open the Win10 Start menu, then click Open “Set”- and then go to “System” Settings, as shown.

Win10 System Settings

2, then in the system settings, click on the left side of the "storage" settings, then on the right side you can find "save location" rdquo; modify options Now, you can save the new application to the default C drive and change it to another drive, such as D drive or other non-system drive.

Win10 default installation path modification method

However, sometimes, you may encounter win10 save location gray, can not be modified, as shown below.

As shown in the figure, for this win10 save location gray, can't be modified? If this happens, we can change the Win10 default installation path by modifying the registry, as follows.

C disk capacity is getting smaller and smaller Win10 default installation path modification method

C disk capacity is getting smaller and smaller, the installed application can not be saved to the C disk by default, if through the above The method can't modify the Win10 default installation path. It doesn't matter. You can modify the registry as well. The method steps are as follows.

1. First use the Win + R combination shortcut, open the run operation box, then type the regedit command, and click OK to open the Win10 registry, as shown.

Open the registry

2. After opening the Win10 registry, expand:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion

Then double-click on the right After the CommonFilerDir on the side, you can edit the Win10 default installation application path, as shown in the following figure.

3, then change the default C:\\Program Files\\CommonFilerDir to D:\\Program Files (you can also change the D drive to E or F drive, mainly non-C drive). As shown.

After the modification is complete, click “OK”Save. After completing the above settings, remember to restart the computer to take effect, in the future Win10 computer installation software, the default application location is not the C drive, but other disks you set, so you are not afraid that the C drive capacity is getting smaller and smaller.