If using the Move feature in ‘Add or remove programs’ to move MSFS including downloaded content to another disk, anyone tried this and know what will happen to programs such as Orbx Central, Aerosoft One etc where the old location of the community folder has already been setup. Pointing to the old disk.
What I wonder is if you will end up with issues with such programs if using the Move feature?
I can now answer my own question after I gave it a go. Thinking I can always move it back if things go south.
Fact is the reason I wanted to move it in the first place wasn’t because I was lacking disk space or anything like that on the original disk. Instead I’ve been having an issue after I accidently used the Move function earlier and after this, I’ve been having an annoying issue where a Program Files folder with a ModifiableWindowsApps subfolder have kept reappearing on the disk where I accidently started a move of MSFS.
After this happened and I restored a system backup where MSFS was located on its original disk where I want it, I’ve been deleting these 2 folders (both empty) but they keep reappearing. Have tried searching the Registry for the path. Thinking I could simply change it back to the correct location but haven’t been able to find an entry for the incorrect path.
I then read somewhere this can happen when moving Xbox games. So figured the incorrect path probably was somewhere “in the cloud”. So now I’ve just tried moving MSFS to this incorrect disk again in full. After this, I’ve moved it back to the correct disk. Hoping this will update the path “in the cloud” to be the correct one. Stopping these folders from appearing on that other disk.
We shall see…keeping my fingers crossed.
Oh yeah, can also mention for anyone else interested or wondering. What actually happens when you move MSFS to a new disk is how it simply will create junction points on the original disk. Pointing to the new folders where the actual data is moved on the new disk. So the folder structure on the original disk will still be there. Only the folders now are junction points rather than real folders.
OK, so finally figured it out!
First the normal disclaimer, don’t mess around with this or the Registry in general unless you’re confident doing so. It could lead to major issues if something goes wrong.
Moving MSFS between the disks didn’t solve the issue with having these extra Program Files\ModifiableWindowsApps folders created on a second disk. Where they shouldn’t be unless you explicitly configured it that way in the first place.
In order to get rid of these extra “dummy” folders if you find them there even after having moved everything back to your original disk (which would normally be your system disk where you have Windows installed), you need to delete the incorrect volume entry found here in the Registry:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\PackageVolumes
Once that is done, you can now delete the dummy folders and after a reboot of the PC, they won’t reappear anymore 
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