How to install Age of Empires Online to Different Partition than C

Age of Empires Game is initially downloaded, the Game and install it to the drive you specify. This will take about 20 MB of disk space. But when you run the launcher it will download the patch files of about 4 GB to C users AppData folder. They don’t offer any option to change this location.

The option is to use Symbolic link. Here is how to do it.

• If you haven't run the AOE Online launcher (AOEOnline.exe) (Proceed to Section below if  you already started the download to C:\)

1. Create the "Age of Empires Online" folder in a drive you have enough empty space (about 5 GB) (Ex: F:\Age of Empires Online)
2. Run the command prompt as Administrator
3. Create a symbolic link to the folder you created just now in "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft"
4. This is syntax - mklink  /d "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Age of Empires Online" "F:\Age of Empires Online"

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