Moving My Documents, My Pictures, My Music to a separate partition

As a soon-to-be-but-not-yet XP user, I can see advantages in having
several partitions in XP, one partition being for user data.

I would want to put folders My Documents, My Pictures, My Music onto
(say) the E: drive. In fact there would be one set of such folders
there, one set per user of XP. How can I set that up? Is it as simple
as dragging the whole profiles folder to another drive, but if so
(idiot question) how does XP know how to find the profiles folder in
its new location?

Also, does XP have some special functionality associated with folder
My Pictures that doesn't get associated with any old folder? If so,
will any special properties of My Pictures be preserved if I move it
to another partition as indicated above?



MTIA...

Hi

You can download TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp and when
installed go to ProgramsPowertoys for Windows XPTweak UIMy
ComputerSpecial Folders. You can change the location via the drop down
menu in the right hand pane.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"AirToob" wrote in message
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As a soon-to-be-but-not-yet XP user, I can see advantages in having
several partitions in XP, one partition being for user data.

I would want to put folders My Documents, My Pictures, My Music onto
(say) the E: drive. In fact there would be one set of such folders
there, one set per user of XP. How can I set that up? Is it as simple
as dragging the whole profiles folder to another drive, but if so
(idiot question) how does XP know how to find the profiles folder in
its new location?

Also, does XP have some special functionality associated with folder
My Pictures that doesn't get associated with any old folder? If so,
will any special properties of My Pictures be preserved if I move it
to another partition as indicated above?



MTIA...

I thought moving "My Pictures to the desktop would be a piece of cake, but
the folder renamed itself to "Administrator's Pictures" ! I cannot rename
back. It won't take. Now, I'm trying to finger out how to get the folder
back into my documents with the name of "My Pictures" because I have found
that Media Center can no longer find it. If I ever get it back to where it
was, I'm just going to put a short cut on the desktop. However, like you, I
have other bigger drives where I would like to store my pictures & music
instead of on drive C: . Thanks for posting as I have similar concerns.
macmanetz

"Will Denny" wrote:

Hi

You can download TweakUI from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp and when
installed go to ProgramsPowertoys for Windows XPTweak UIMy
ComputerSpecial Folders. You can change the location via the drop down
menu in the right hand pane.

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP - Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups


"AirToob" wrote in message
om...
As a soon-to-be-but-not-yet XP user, I can see advantages in having
several partitions in XP, one partition being for user data.

I would want to put folders My Documents, My Pictures, My Music onto
(say) the E: drive. In fact there would be one set of such folders
there, one set per user of XP. How can I set that up? Is it as simple
as dragging the whole profiles folder to another drive, but if so
(idiot question) how does XP know how to find the profiles folder in
its new location?

Also, does XP have some special functionality associated with folder
My Pictures that doesn't get associated with any old folder? If so,
will any special properties of My Pictures be preserved if I move it
to another partition as indicated above?



MTIA...