My Music folder location

[Guest]

Recently bought an internal hard drive to accomodate music and video files. I
want to move all the music and video files from the C drive to the new drive.
But I would like to set up My Music on the start menu so that when I click on
it, it will take me to the files on the new drive. How do I change the
settings so I can do this?

 

[WTC]

Recently bought an internal hard drive to accomodate music and video
files. I
want to move all the music and video files from the C drive to the new
drive.
But I would like to set up My Music on the start menu so that when I click
on
it, it will take me to the files on the new drive. How do I change the
settings so I can do this?

To change the location of your Music Folder:

start>run and type

regedit

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

In the right-hand pane, locate "My Music" and edit the Value Data to the
location New Music Folder.

Then navigate to the following key::
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders

In the right-hand pane, locate "My Music" and edit the Value Data to the
location of the New Music Folder.

 

[Guest]

Everything went OK til I got to the User Shell Folders. There was no My Music
listed in the right-hand pane. The only thing with My on it was My Pictures.
Is there somewhere else I should look? It seems the change won't take without
changing the User Shell Folder as well.
Thanks.

 

[WTC]

Everything went OK til I got to the User Shell Folders. There was no My
Music
listed in the right-hand pane. The only thing with My on it was My
Pictures.
Is there somewhere else I should look? It seems the change won't take
without
changing the User Shell Folder as well.
Thanks.

Add it in the User Shell Folders. Just like the Shell Folders.

 

[WTC]

Add it in the User Shell Folders. Just like the Shell Folders.

Also if this does not work for you, change everything back to the way it was
the download TweakUI because it can do this for you.

Download from the Microsoft site.
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx