The default download location on our Windows systems works well plenty most of the time without a problem, but what if you want or demand to change the location at the system level? With that in mind, today's SuperUser Q&A post has some helpful communication for a frustrated reader.

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The Question

SuperUser reader Dr. John A Zoidberg wants to know how to modify the Windows' default download path:

I would like to keep my bulldoze paths as clean as possible and C:\Downloads is much nicer than C:\Users\Myname\Downloads. How can I terminate Windows 10 from using the user proper noun profile location by default?

How exercise y'all change Windows' default download path?

The Answer

SuperUser contributors Techie007 and Charles Burge take the answer for usa. First upwardly, Techie007:

1. Open Windows Explorer

2. Create the folder yous want to have equally your new Downloads folder (i.e. C:\Downloads)

three. Nether This PC, right-click Downloads

four. Click Properties

v. Select the Location Tab

6. Click Move

7. Select the binder yous fabricated in Stride 2

eight. In one case information technology has finished copying everything to the new binder, click OK to close the Properties Window

Followed by the answer from Charles Burge:

Information technology is non Windows itself that downloads files, but rather its applications like web browsers or other network clients. If yous are specifically talking virtually downloading files from the Cyberspace, your web browser has a setting for the default download location. You tin even fix it to ask y'all each fourth dimension where y'all desire to put a file that you are most to download.

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