Your C drive is full? You can change the default installation and storage location for apps or games that take up storage space to another drive.
By default, Windows 11 will store downloaded files, personal folders, applications, and so on in C drive. At the same time, the C drive also works as the Windows boot disk and all files and data related to the system.
As a result,C drive will quickly become full of your downloaded content, installed applications and software, personal files (documents and images), and others.
How will you solve this problem when the C drive starts to full? You can solve this problem in various ways, including changing the default download location, relocating user directories such as Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to another disk, eliminating unnecessary large files, and so on.
On 32-bit Windows, applications will be attached to the “C:Program Files” directory, while on 64-bit Windows to the “C:Program Files” and “C:Program Files(x86)” directories. Changing the location of installed apps in Windows 11 is another effective method to free up space on the system C drive. You can change the default storage location in Windows 11 in different ways.
How to Change App Installation Default in Windows 11
- Open Windows 11 “Settings”. You can open it by right-clicking on the Start button, then select the Settings option. In addition, you can also use keyboard key shortcuts (WIN + I).
- Then select “System” on the left panel and click “Storage” on the right panel.
- Next, on the right panel, in the “Storage management” section, click “Advanced storage settings” to expand and display the available options. Select it and click the “Where new content is saved” option.
- Then, in the “New app will save to” field, click the dropdown button and select the drive that will be the default new location for installing the app.
- Once you have selected the drive, click the “Apply” button to apply.
On this page, you also move the default locations for documents, music, pictures, videos, and more.