My Documents, My Pictures & My Music Folders Location

[Guest]

Perhaps someone asked before, but I can not find the answer.
I used to have My Documents, My Pictures and My Music folders on root
directory of d:\ drive because I want to keep c:\ 'clean' having only the
installed programms while all the data is on d:\. Computer crashed,
reformated the hard drive and reinstalled Windows with all the updates. Now I
moved My Documents directory back to d:\My Documents, but My Pictures & My
Music folders directories have been automatically set inside of My
Documents, and I can not find any way to direct them back to their old
locations: d:\My Pictures, d:\My Music, d:\My Movies
Can that be done, or they have to stay inside of My Documents?

 

[philo]

Perhaps someone asked before, but I can not find the answer.
I used to have My Documents, My Pictures and My Music folders on root
directory of d:\ drive because I want to keep c:\ 'clean' having only the
installed programms while all the data is on d:\. Computer crashed,
reformated the hard drive and reinstalled Windows with all the updates.
Now I
moved My Documents directory back to d:\My Documents, but My Pictures & My
Music folders directories have been automatically set inside of My
Documents, and I can not find any way to direct them back to their old
locations: d:\My Pictures, d:\My Music, d:\My Movies
Can that be done, or they have to stay inside of My Documents?

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/16099/16099.html

 

[Guest]

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/16099/16099.html

Thanks Philo,
I did it and 'My Videos' has been changed, however My Music and My Pictures
setting go back to:
d:\MyDocuments\My Pictures and respectively My Music when I restart the
computer
Something keeps changing them to point inside My Documents folder.
Any other ideas?

 

[philo]

Thanks Philo,
I did it and 'My Videos' has been changed, however My Music and My
Pictures
setting go back to:
d:\MyDocuments\My Pictures and respectively My Music when I restart the
computer
Something keeps changing them to point inside My Documents folder.
Any other ideas?

I suppose you could just create folders on your C: drive simply called
"pictures" & "music"

but maybe someone here can come up with a better registry hack than i was
able to come up with

 

[Sharon F]

Perhaps someone asked before, but I can not find the answer.
I used to have My Documents, My Pictures and My Music folders on root
directory of d:\ drive because I want to keep c:\ 'clean' having only the
installed programms while all the data is on d:\. Computer crashed,
reformated the hard drive and reinstalled Windows with all the updates. Now I
moved My Documents directory back to d:\My Documents, but My Pictures & My
Music folders directories have been automatically set inside of My
Documents, and I can not find any way to direct them back to their old
locations: d:\My Pictures, d:\My Music, d:\My Movies
Can that be done, or they have to stay inside of My Documents?

You can do a right click drag with those folders. Drop where you want the
folder to be located. Choose Move Here from the resulting menu. XP will
automatically update the registry about the location of these special
folders.

Or you can use TweakUI for XP to move them too. TweakUI for XP is one of
the power toys that can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[Guest]

Thank you Sharon.
Unbelievebale easy... Drag and drop.
It actually worked.
I would have never tought about it, it would have been to... obvious
Thanks again.

 

[Sharon F]

Thank you Sharon.
Unbelievebale easy... Drag and drop.
It actually worked.
I would have never tought about it, it would have been to... obvious
Thanks again.

You're welcome! It's important to drag and drop using the right mouse
button and to use the menu that follows. I'm not sure that the registry
changes will occur if you do a left click drag and drop. I do know that
they will happen with the right click drag.