The number and type of apps that “require” being installed on the system disk is honestly ridiculous. Anything that isn’t a digital media app needs to get over itself. Even those are being total whiners.
The fsking OS won’t allow AppX packages from one user to be run by another user… Hell, it won’t let me move a thumb drive from one system to another without blowing away previously-installed apps. EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE TIED TO THE SAME ACCOUNT!
So seriously. What’s all the whine about?
My system drive is a 128 GB SSD. I don’t want everything installed there. Just Windows really. I want to install Store apps to fast USB3 storage and games to a relatively quick 7200RPM SATA3 drive.
One thing is certain, I won’t be putting any storage restrictions on anything I publish to the Microsoft Store.
Time for the rest of these cowards to get with the program.
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#233530"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>Gee, if only there were custom installers that would allow the user to make some choices concerning the installation and defaults for an application. I'm surprised that Microsoft didn't provide that capability a long time ago .. oh wait.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#233922"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>"It's part of the semi-lock-down UWP/Store installation provides."</p><p><br></p><p>Yes, that's the point. There's always a trade-off between safety/simplicity vs capability. Even if there were some settings available to change the default location globally it would still be less flexible than choosing on a per app basis and less obvious than presenting the option during installation.</p>