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I just recently changed the location of the programs files and program files (x86) to my secondary storage drive by using mklink. I've heard that some people have issues after doing so, but their issues don't seem to be mine. I can't seem to use windows store, photo viewer, movies & tv, email, or groove music. This isn't a terrible thing to sacrifice for more storage space on my OS ssd, but I'm still interested in knowing if there's any ways to fix this.

 

My issue is simple, any time I try to open the program, or a file connected to the program, it will start up, immediately crash and if I used a file it'll tell me (file location) this app won't start. During troubleshooting I also found that apparently the services don't exist for at the very least WS, there should be a license and some other service, but they don't exist. I assume this has to do with the problem and that the problem is related to the directory move and mklink. it also looks like I can't access certain things, such as in the default apps area, I can't set defaults by app. it moves to the setting area and then closes. This may make things more difficult, so any ideas are welcome.


Thank you for any help, I've done all simple troubleshooting such as resetting the apps and such, I'm not interested in performing a reset or fresh install, worst comes to worst I can just move everything back to my OS ssd, however I'm fine with using third party programs as default apps when possible. Thanks again!

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