If not, once it downloads, you’ll have the option to open the app and start enjoying right then and there. In that case, it will open automatically. In some cases, the app may be preinstalled on your device. While there are many good reasons to install apps on a separate drive, you must consider that adding more drives also adds more points of failures to your device. Once you’ve found your desired app, select Get or Install.
You may be able to find Registry hacks, but it's not recommended as it can cause an unknown number of errors. If you configure a secondary hard drive to install applications, that storage is pretty much tied to the device you used to install the app.įor traditional desktop applications, this will be a manual process.
It should be noted that you can't just remove the drive and move it to another computer hoping that apps will run. Unlike Windows Store apps, you can't move traditional desktop (Win32) apps to another drive, but you can, alternatively, uninstall the app, and reinstall it changing the Destination Folder option during the setup.
