Windows Apps and the Windows Store

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Windows 10 In Depth, 2nd Edition

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Windows 10 In Depth, 2nd Edition

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Installing Apps from the Windows Store

Windows 10 comes with quite a few apps, but it doesn’t cover every base, not by a long shot. If there’s an app that you need, you can obtain the app yourself and then install it on your PC. Here are the steps to follow to install an app from the Windows Store:

1. On the taskbar or Start screen, tap Store. The Store appears.

2. Select the Apps tab.

3. Display the app that you want to install. See the “Store” section, earlier in this chapter, to learn how to navigate the Windows Store.

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   When you install an app, it appears on the main Start menu under the Recently Added heading.

4. If it’s a paid app, tap Buy; otherwise, tap Get. The Store app shows the progress of the install as well as buttons for pausing or canceling the install (see Figure 5.12).

   

   Figure 5.12 The Store app shows the progress of the app install and enables you to pause or cancel the install.

By default, Windows 10 stores all new apps on the system hard drive, usually drive C. If you prefer to use a different drive (say, if your system drive is getting low on disk space), you can follow these steps to specify a different app install default drive:

1. Click Start and then click Settings (the gear icon) to open the Settings app.

2. Click System.

3. Click the Storage tab.

4. Click Change Where New Content Is Saved.

5. In the New Apps Will Save To list, select the drive you want to use as the default for app installs.