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The option is up to you, obviously, and whatever you are happiest with. It just makes things easier and cleaner for me to manage.

Here you'll also find the option to have Microsoft Edge ask where to save each file. In the dialog box, select a new location for your downloaded files. Select Downloads, and then, in the Location area, select Change. I am highly organized! I have specific folders designated to download photos to, for videos, for application/program installers and so forth. To change your downloads folder location in Microsoft Edge: Open Microsoft Edge, then select Settings and more > Settings. I do not want everything I download going to one place. Personally, I want my browsers to ask me where to save things. You can click ”Change” next to that default folder, navigate to a folder you wish to always save everything to and then click ”Save.” Or, you can toggle that switch to the ”On” position located to the right of ”Ask Where to Save Each File Before Downloading.” Also note that the switch to ask you where to save things is set to the off position by default. While setting the machine up to my liking, I immediately downloaded Chrome and then toggled this little gem to the “on” position.Ĭlick the three dots at the top-right of Chrome and then click on ”Settings.” In the left-side menu, scroll down and click the down-arrow next to ”Advanced.” From here, click ”Downloads.”Īs you can see, the location is automatically set to save to C:\Users\YourName\Downloads. Inside registry editor, you would be required to navigate to the following folder using the hierarchy structure.Considering Chrome is my preferred browser, this was one of the first things I did when I was first given this laptop. Right click on start menu and select Run or press Win + R and type regedit inside the Run menu followed by the Enter It will open the registry editor.Ģ. The first thing you would need to do is to open registry editor. How to Change the Download Folder on Edge:ġ. So, let’s get started to change the download folder in Edge browser. For this, you would be required to set a new location inside registry. Well, unfortunately, that’s not too easy inside Edge as compared to other browsers. But what if you want to allocate a different folder for the Edge to save the downloaded stuff? By default, Edge saves the downloaded files inside the C:\Users\umarr\Downloads (“umarr” is my account name). download folder cannot be changed from its default one. There is an issue which people have noticed inside Edge Browser i.e. So, Microsoft started building a new browser along with their latest Windows OS i.e. Microsoft was disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer and it was bullied by the web designers as they had to tweaks settings on the web pages in order to make them work along.