Policy

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

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Components > App Package Deployment
Supported onAt 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.

Registry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled value
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Appx\RestrictAppDataToSystemVolumeREG_DWORD
1
0

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