Change My Document location

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Hi there,
I would like for my XP Pro to automatically put the My Documents folder in a
different drive to the windows install(C:\) when I create a new user and am
wondering how to do this.
Regards,
James.
 
How to Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310147

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| Hi there,
| I would like for my XP Pro to automatically put the My Documents folder in a
| different drive to the windows install(C:\) when I create a new user and am
| wondering how to do this.
| Regards,
| James.
 
Sure that's how one changes the location of the My Docs folder, but that's
manually and I want to know if XP can do it automatically or whether I have
to manually change the location of the My Docs for each user I create myself.
 
this post answers my question,
regards.

Subject: Re: My Docs Folder 1/12/2006 5:05 AM PST

By: Ondrej Sevecek In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin


what I can imagine, it is not possible unless your computers are members of
the a domain. Then you would be able to create a Group Policy object with
Folder Redirection enabled.

Or the second choice would be to redirect the whole "Documents and Settings"
(the local profile cache), so also the whole user profiles. This can be
achieved in registry:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
ProfilesDirectory = REG_EXPAND_SZ = your directory for local profiles


O.
 
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