How to modify Windows 8 apply the default installation path

You may not be comfortable with many of the Windows 8 changes, but from the user experience point of view, Windows 8 is at least one of the best, and that's the App store. This is a widely used in Apple systems and smartphones, the application store to find, buy, download, install the integration of the application, users can easily access the application, coupled with the synchronization function, their installed applications can find historical records.

WIN8 Application Store

Where is the WINDOWS8 application installed?

It is convenient to get applications through the Windows store, but you cannot choose the installation path for these applications, and even many people cannot find where the installed applications are. I'm not sure where to start. These applications installed in the Web, after the online query to know that the original Windows store in the application of all installation in the system partition X:/program files hidden directory "Windowsapps".

Note 1: To display the hidden folders, click View-Options on the File Explorer, switch to the View tab, and select Show hidden files, folders, and drives in the advanced settings.

WINDOWS8 applications are here.

After installing the WINDOWS8 application is also different from our common, the folder name is quite long, the company name, the software name, the version number and so on the information all displays in the folder name, even also includes some (temporarily did not understand what meaning) random string.

Note 2: Access to the application folder may require access, and the method of operation is shown later in this article.

WINDOWS8 Application Folder name is very long

Modify WIN8 Application Installation path

Once you know the WINDOWS8 application installation location, you might think of another question, how do you change the installation path for the application? As to why you would think of changing the installation path, it is mainly due to disk partition space problems. Small series has not installed how many applications, has been used to 2G more space, and now the application of the bulk of the application store and a lot of, especially like some games, hundreds of MB and even on the GB have appeared, the system disk space is easily depleted. Therefore, installing the application to a larger disk partition is the solution.

The WIN8 application of the small series has exceeded 2GB.

However, how can you modify the installation path for Windows 8 applications where no user can intervene during the installation? After some efforts, finally let small set up to find a solution (thank Askvg.com website to share this method), please look down.

Since you cannot change the path during the installation process, you should look for methods from the source, such as changing the system default installation path directly. This path is saved in the registry, press "Win+r" to open the run, enter Regedit startup Registry Editor, and navigate to the following key values:

Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionappx

Find "Packageroot" in the right-hand window, and note that its data value is the default installation path for WINDOWS8 applications.

WIN8 Apply Installation path settings

The next thing to do is simple, modify its data values, change to the location you want. But when you edit the click to determine, you will receive the following prompts:

You don't have permission to modify

So we also need to get the right to appx key value first, and then we can change the path after obtaining the permission.

Modify apply Default Path

Note 3: Changing the default installation path for Windows 8 applications will cause an installed application upgrade to fail because the old and new versions of the path are inconsistent, so if you decide to change the application installation path, first uninstall all WINDOWS8 built-in and third-party applications, and then reinstall the paths after you change the path.

3rd page: Win8 Permission access method

For files or folders, right-key properties, security labels; for registry keys, right-click permissions; Next operation is basically the same: Select the "group or user name" in the Administrators, click below the Advanced;

Change permissions for an administrator account

Click "Change" on the top of the newly opened window.

Change owner

Then in the new window below the input box to enter the user's login username and click "Check Name", then click on each window to determine the next turn them off.

Enter Local login username here

Return to the original Permissions window, administrators the permissions of the "Full Control", and finally make sure to return to the folder or registry.

Get Full Control permissions