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 application store

Windows8 applications installed in any place

With Windows store for convenient application is convenient, but you can not choose the installation path for these applications, and even a lot of people Can't find where the installed app is. Xiaobian I didn't know where these applications were installed at first. 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”.

Windows8 applications here

Windows8 application after installation is our common and different, very long folder name, Company name, software name, version number, etc. are displayed in the folder On the name, there are even some random strings (sometimes not clear what it means).

Note 2: Access to the application folder may require access rights, as described below. After

Windows8 application file folder named long

Win8 application to modify the installation path

know Windows8 application installation location, you may want to turn to another question, how to change application What is the installation path? As for why I think of changing the installation path, mainly because of disk partition space issues. 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.

small series of Win8 application has more than 2GB of

However, Windows 8 application where the user can not intervene during the installation process, how to modify the installation path of it? After some hard work, I finally let Xiaobian find 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 settings

The next to do is simple, and modify its data value, you can change the position you want. But when you have finished editing click OK, you receive the following prompt:

you do not have permission to modify