My Documents folders

[Microsoft]

Running Win XP Pro ... NTFS file system ... several user accounts

1.
How can I change the location of My Documents to somewhere other than the
default? Eg, another drive.

2.
How can I get the shortcuts to "A's Documents" "B's documents", etc out of
the My Computer window?

TIA
Andrew

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

1) TweakUI for Windows XP. My Computer, Special Folders section.

2) Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\MyC=
omputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Right click on the {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} sub-key and =
select Export. This creates a backup, just in case. The right click the =
{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} subkey and select Delete. Close =
any open Explorer windows, or simply press F5 to refresh the view.
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> Running Win XP Pro ... NTFS file system ... several user accounts
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> 1.
> How can I change the location of My Documents to somewhere other than =
the
> default? Eg, another drive.
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> 2.
> How can I get the shortcuts to "A's Documents" "B's documents", etc =
out of
> the My Computer window?
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> TIA
> Andrew
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>

[Alex Nichol]

Microsoft wrote:

>
>1.
>How can I change the location of My Documents to somewhere other than the
>default? Eg, another drive.

Open a My Computer Window to
C:\Documents and Settings\<logged in account>\
to show My Documents; open another window on the drive where you want
it and *right* drag it across, taking *Move* here on release.

If you do this for several users, logging in as each in turn, first make
a folder for each on the second drive and put the My Docs into it

>How can I get the shortcuts to "A's Documents" "B's documents", etc out of
>the My Computer window?

Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from (if you have installed XP
SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you have not installed SP1, the earlier version can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

Its My Computer page, in the My Computer icons panel, uncheck 'Files
Stored on this computer'


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)