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brian213

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:51 am
Post subject: Moving My Documents, My Pictures, My Music to a separate pa
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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...

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Will Denny

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:00 pm
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Hi

You can download TweakUI from
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp</a> and when
installed go to Programs>Powertoys for Windows XP>Tweak UI>My
Computer>Special Folders. You can change the location via the drop down
menu in the right hand pane.

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"AirToob" <brian DeleteThis @tooby.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6c8ae818.0411010751.30f54e0c@posting.google.com...
 > 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...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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macmanetz

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:40 am
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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
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp</a> and when
 > installed go to Programs>Powertoys for Windows XP>Tweak UI>My
 > Computer>Special 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" <brian DeleteThis @tooby.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
 > news:6c8ae818.0411010751.30f54e0c@posting.google.com...
  > > 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...
 >
 >
 ><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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