In my case, the actual command looks like this: You need to replace the locations accordingly in the above command as I have mentioned and make sure you add the quotes (“”) as well. Junction.exe "Default location of Chrome" "Your destination location" Here you need to enter the below-mentioned command accordingly. Press Windows + R to open the Run dialog and type cmd in it to open the Command Prompt. It’s a command line tool, so we’ll have to use Windows Command Prompt to create the junction. Now you need to create a junction to redirect data from the default Chrome destination to the new one. Make sure you install it in the System32 folder inside the Windows, otherwise it won’t work. Open the zip file using your preferred extraction tool (like 7-zip) and extract the junction.exe (or junction64.exe if you have a 64-bit system) file in C:\Windows\System32 folder.
Download Junction app from the Microsoft website.You’ll need a third-party junction app available on Microsoft website. Download and install the Junction appĪlthough junctions is a Windows built-in feature, but Windows natively doesn’t ship with an application to create junctions. I have created a folder with the name Chrome in D drive. Make sure you don’t delete the Google folder.Īfterwards, go to the drive where you want to install Chrome and create a folder in which you want Chrome to reside. When you reach the Google folder, delete the Chrome folder inside it. In the above location, replace Your Username with your actual username. Uninstall Chrome and move to the below-mentioned location in your PC:Ĭ:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome Delete previously installed Chromeįirst, you need to delete the contents of any previous Chrome installation and also create a destination folder on a different drive where you want to install Chrome. Read Also: 11 Ways to Speed Up Google Chrome 1. If you are also looking to move Chrome to a different drive, then keep reading and I’ll show you how to do it.
With the help of junctions in Windows, you can make Chrome think it is still on the system drive even though its content will be on a different drive. And even if you move the Chrome application to a different drive, its data is still recorded in the system drive which easily accounts for GBs of space over time.Īfter a bit of research and experiments, I managed to find a simple method to beat Chrome in its own game. In case you don’t know, there’s no option to install Chrome on any other drive except the system drive (i.e. Everything works fine – except for Chrome. My PC has a small hard drive, so I have only allocated 25GB of space to the C drive (system drive) and store all my data in other drives.
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