Policy

Prevent users' app data from being stored on non-system volumes

Microsoft Windows

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Prevent users' app data from being stored on non-system volumes
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > App Package Deployment
Supported on
At least Windows 8.1 Update 2

Supported OS tags: Windows8, Windows81

Prevent users' app data from moving to another location when an app is moved or installed on another location. If you enable this setting, all users' app data will stay on the system volume, regardless of where the app is installed. If you disable or do not configure this setting, then when an app is moved to a different volume, the users' app data will also move to this volume.

Internal name
RestrictAppDataToSystemVolume
Policy ID
a9883659b10c
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx
Value name
RestrictAppDataToSystemVolume
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx
Value name
RestrictAppDataToSystemVolume
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.