I even created a new user account and took ownership using that account to no avail.
I've tried taking ownership of the folder, took ownership of the root of the drive and giving myself Full Control, booting into safe mode. I've rebooted numerous times to try to free up anything that might be accessing this folder. I should note that as far as I can tell, there is nothing accessing this folder. The error I get is attached to this post. No matter what I try, I get various errors and I can't delete it to free up all of that space. It is currently taking about 200 GB of space on my SSD and I want to get rid of it. I usually install games and some apps from the Windows Store onto this drive. I have the WindowsApps folder on my 😧 drive which is a 2TB SSD. On the next window that opens, click the Change option next to the Owner.I just did a Windows re-install and I am trying to do some cleaning up of my files and folders. Go to the Security tab and click ‘Advanced’. Right-click it and select Properties from the context menu. Navigate to the root of the drive with the WindowsApps folder. You’re going to need admin rights for this. They do not install to the WindowsApps folder. The desktop apps do not need to be removed. The list will be a mix of UWP apps and desktop apps. Look through the list and move the apps you want to keep to a different drive. Open the Filter by dropdown and select the drive with the WindowsApps folder that you want to delete. On the Apps & features tab, scroll down to the list of installed apps. Open the Settings app and go to the Apps group of settings. Checking which apps are installed on a drive is incredibly easy. As such, if you want to delete the WindowsApps folder from a drive, you have to make sure that there is no UWP app installed to the drive the folder is on.īefore we show you how you can delete the WindowsApps folder, you need to first make sure there are no apps installed to the drive it’s on. What this means is that if you’ve ever installed an app to a non-Windows drive, it will have the WindowsApps folder. UWP apps can be installed or moved to any drive on your system. The WindowsApps folder is where UWP apps are installed.
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