change windows kit common installation path

Question

i'm trying to install Windows SDK and my main drive (C) is full. I want to change the path of the installation but it's gray , it's says that ot using the common installation path of Windows kit's path, is there anyway to change this path?

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Answer 1

What worked for me is to first uninstall all instances of Visual Studio, all Windows Software Development Kits, and the Windows SDK AddOn. (Maybe uninstalling Visual Studio was unnecessary.)

Then I went into the registry and I changed some of the values under here:

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Kits\Installed Roots

On my Windows 10 Pro (v 1809) machine, I had 3 values to change. Here I am showing the default values, and I believe the trailing backslash is important.

KitsRoot    C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\
KitsRoot10  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\
KitsRoot81  C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\

After modifying these values, I could re-install a kit into the appropriate folder (matching the registry values that I had set).

This also fixes one of the unmodifiable paths for the Visual Studio Professional 2017 installation (presumably it relies on the same registry keys).