How to move 8.1 programs to sd card

[Perryg114]

Playing with wife's tablet. Need to move programs to SD card. Only have 32g in main memory. So how do I do this? No option to install on other drive.

 

[denis280]

You cant move a program.you have to reinstall it

 

[jcgriff2]

Playing with wife's tablet. Need to move programs to SD card.
..So how do I do this? No option to install on other drive.

I would not advise installing programs to a removable drive.

Only have 32g in main memory.

Do you mean 32 GB free space remaining on the HDD?

 

[Perryg114]

it only has 32G total. It is a dell venue 8pro. Ok so how do I direct a program to install to an external drive? Actually it is an SD card slot which is almost internal.

 

[jcgriff2]

You would have to specify the drive location during program installation.

But I do not recommend installing to a removable drive.

 

[Ichinisan]

You would have to specify the drive location during program installation.

But I do not recommend installing to a removable drive.

I don't think Metro/Modern apps ever gave me any such choice when I installed them.

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

Store apps install directly to a known folder in C:\ and have no facility to be relocated. Presumably, you could try copying the folder somewhere then junctioning to it but I haven't tried that myself.

 

[JackMDS]

Between this page - http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/thr...enue-8-pro-or-other-windows-8-1-system.60268/

And this - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-8-tablet-gaming,3847-2.html

You might get some partial relief.

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Desktop Apps that have regular setup process can be installed to the mSD. Modern Apps that will end up on the main SSD are usually relatively small.



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[yinan]

Could probably mess with mount points. Ugly but it should work

 

[Ichinisan]

I was always under the impression that Microsoft was *finally* doing apps in a proper sandboxed / modular way (something Windows should have done decades ago). However, it looks like even Win8 Modern apps were implemented in the wrong way.

It appears that many of them use some kind of shared process and I can't tell where the apps themselves are located in storage.

I did find an actual background process for the Netflix app. Task Manager says it's located in:
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\4DF9E0F8.Netflix_2.9.0.29_x64__mcm4njqhnhss8

The "WindowsApps" folder doesn't appear in Program Files. When I try to get there through other methods, Windows tells me to click Continue to request permission to access the folder and then denies access. My user account is an administrator account, so I don't know why the folder is inaccessible to me.