Homedrive and homepath

Hello!

I've moved my personal folders (Documents, Music, etc) to my second partion
which is D:. When I open for example the command line it is set to start in
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% which becomes C:\Users\Marlun. I want it to become
D:\Users\Marlun. What do I need to do? Are there any problems with changing
it?

Thanks in advance!

"Martin Lundberg" wrote ...
> I've moved my personal folders (Documents, Music, etc) to my second
> partion which is D:. When I open for example the command line it is set to
> start in %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% which becomes C:\Users\Marlun. I want it to
> become D:\Users\Marlun. What do I need to do? Are there any problems with
> changing

Hi Martin,

You should leave %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% pointing towards the root of your
user profile directory (C:\Users\Marlum). This is the location of you user
profile, NTUSER.DAT. Even if you move your Documents, etc directories to
D:\Users\Marlun, the profile will always stay on C:\Users\Marlun. Some apps
and tools may try to locate your NTUSER.DAT by using the
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% variables (yes, they could use %USERPROFILE% instead;
but be sure to get tripped up, by the one app which doesn't! :-).

What I do myself, is change the "Start in:" field of the "Command Prompt"
shortcut from %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% to D:\Users\%USERNAME%. That is: don't
change the %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% variables; just change the shortcut
you use to launch the command prompt. This will be the less disruptive way.

I also have a batch file on the PATH, called ~.CMD. This changes to my
D:\Users\%USERNAME% directory. So I can get back to the root of my
documents, music, etc, quite easily, whenever I want, by hitting "~<enter>"

Hope it helps,

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Sorry to hijack this thread ... I'm trying to start a new one but it doesn't
work. Obviously ...pop up's are working because I can REPLY to a thread and
I also double checked IE pop up blocker and it is not on.

Can someone help. I just get the beep sound when I try to start a new
thread... question, suggestion, comment.

Thanks.

"Martin Lundberg" wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I've moved my personal folders (Documents, Music, etc) to my second partion
> which is D:. When I open for example the command line it is set to start in
> %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% which becomes C:\Users\Marlun. I want it to become
> D:\Users\Marlun. What do I need to do? Are there any problems with changing
> it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

miruca wrote:
> Sorry to hijack this thread ... I'm trying to start a new one but it doesn't
> work. Obviously ...pop up's are working because I can REPLY to a thread and
> I also double checked IE pop up blocker and it is not on.
>
> Can someone help. I just get the beep sound when I try to start a new
> thread... question, suggestion, comment.

You're having difficulties because you are using the web interface which
is the worst way to access these newsgroups. You will get far more out
of this resource if you learn to use a newsreader, which is very easy to
do. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use Outlook
Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it. Here are
some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html - The Seven Don'ts of Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/index.html - further reading on
Usenet, including recommended reading for netiquette issues
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief
explanation of newsgroups

Look in Windows Mail's Help for "reading news" or "newsreader" to see
how to set it up there.

How to Post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - multiposting vs. crossposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows*:
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird
http://gravity.tbates.org/
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

*Check to make sure they work in Vista. I know that Thunderbird does.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User