VS Enterprise 2022: How can I change installation path of Shared components, tools and SDKs?

Question

I want to setup my student licensed VS Enterprise 2022 and the Shared components, tools, and SDKs install path default is in drive D:. I can't change it, there are no opportunity for it.
The problem is, I don't have drive D: in my pc. If I start setup with this path, I immediately get an error to free space in drive D:.
Can anybody help, how can I install it?

Answer 1

Hi @Sznopek Ádám ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

This document: Select installation locations mentioned:

If you've installed Visual Studio on your computer before, you won’t be able to change the Shared components, tools, and SDKs path and it will appear greyed out.

I guess you’ve installed Visual Studio on your computer before, to change the installation path of the Shared components, tools, and SDKs, you need to change the Registry, but I don’t recommend modifying Registry.

If you really want to modify it, please backup it(registry) before you change the registry, and then navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup, right-click SharedInstallationPath > click Modify and enter the value data.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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Answer 2

Thank you very much for the help. It's working now.