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By: Laurent Duchastel     Montréal, Québec  
Date: Mar 18,2006 at 11:27
In Response to: changing "my ..." (Brian Layman)

> Yeah, I did this but it is nigh impossible to get all software to respect
> it and some software, like mediaplayer, IGNORES the changed my documents
> route and goes at your expected path anyway. Last week I officially
> conceded victory to MS on this one. I took my \myfiles\WP directory on all
> machines and moved it over into my documents and reset all the env vars to
> their defaults.

> The only positive thing is that since the my documents is the default path
> I can hit start run and type "my music" and it will take me to
> that directory. That's a pretty week positive.

> I'm going to subst a drive to that the My Documents directory too.

> I just am not going to fight it anymore...

No need for TweakUI or registry editing.

You can use Windows Explorer to changes some default paths. As far as I could test in the last years, that method works with all applications.

1. Move "My Documents" by changing path in folder's properties. You can use any name, even root such as D::\
2. Drag'n Move "Desktop" to new target. The target for Desktop must be local and can't be a network location or mapped network drive. I usually move Desktop folder within My Document folder.
3. Drag'n Move "Favorites to new target using same method and with same limitation as above stated in no.2
4. My Music, My Video, etc. can be moved using same technic stated in No. 1

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