However, it is possible with a registry hack in both Windows 8 and 8. Ensure you get the right-sized SD card as well. Though any SD card or flash drive should work for storing your Windows 8 apps, it needs to be in a certain file system format, called NTFS.
To check yours, pop in the card or drive, open a File Explorer window, find your removable storage, right-click its icon or long tap for touch screens , and select Properties.
However, first ensure you have copied any existing files on that drive to another location before proceeding, as changing the format will delete all data on that drive.
Even if your drive is already formatted to NTFS, you may want to create a new folder on the drive that will hold the data for your Windows 8 apps.
Inside this folder, Windows will create a sub-folder for each app you install in the future. In order to change the location where Windows 8 apps are installed, you must first give yourself or more technically the Administrators of Windows ownership and editing permissions of the corresponding registry key. On the left side of the window, right-click the Appx key or long tap for touch screens and click Permissions Near the top of the Advanced Security Settings dialog, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects checkbox and click OK.
Back on the Permissions window, select the Administrators entry from the list, for Full Control select the Allow checkbox , and click OK. Back on the main Registry Editor window, double-click the PackageRoot entry on the right side of the window.
Type the location of the desired drive or folder you created earlier and click OK. We want to move as much as we can of that MB to the SD card as possible. It just seems to be there as a convenience for apps that can normally be moved to the SD card, so you can use Link2SD as a general app manager. Leave the first three file types selected. Notice that To illustrate an app being installed directly to the SD card, I installed a simple Notepad app from the Play Store and it was installed on the SD card, bypassing the internal storage, as shown below.
If you remove the device, any apps you moved to the SD card will not be usable without the SD card. This may seem like a complicated process, but if you have an Android device with limited internal storage and has an SD card slot like we do, it can be a life saver.
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So depending on the apps you want to move, this may or may not be very useful to you. On a stock Android device, such as the Nexus 7, swipe down once to access the Notifications panel, and again to access the Quick Settings panel. Scroll through the list of apps and tap the app you want to move to the SD card. You can scroll through your own list of apps and choose to move an app that is taking up a significant amount of space on your device. Tap the button to begin moving it. There is a better way to get an overall view of which apps can and cannot be moved to the SD card.
There is also a paid version, but the free version is good enough for this purpose. Next, follow the steps below to the letter, and you should have some extra space on your SD card for apps. Before partitioning your SD card, be sure to back up all data on your SD card. This partitioning procedure will erase everything on it. Once your data is backed up, leave the SD card in your PC for the partitioning process.
The following screen displays. Select the disk for your SD drive. This is the point at which all the data on the SD card will be erased. The first partition will be used for data. Creating partitions on an SD card so you can install apps to it on an Android device is different from partitioning a drive for a PC.
Next, you need to define the type of file system for the data partition. By default, the size of this partition is the available size of the SD card. Click and hold on the yellow border and drag it to the left until you get the approximate size you want for your data.
The remaining space on the SD card is listed as unallocated below the data partition you just created. Now, you need to define the second partition for the apps. Windows can only recognize the first partition on a removable disk. However, since we are not using this SD card on a Windows PC, we can continue to create the second partition.
The remaining space on the SD card is automatically used for the second partition. However, the changes are not final yet. A confirmation dialog box displays making sure you want to apply the changes. Now that you have a properly partitioned SD card, insert it back into your Android device and boot up the device. There is a paid version of the app, but the free version will suffice for this procedure.
That should reset the app. Once your device has rebooted, open Link2SD again. You should not see any dialog box display. Instead, you should see a list of apps and some options on the top of the app screen.
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