How can I make the DOCUMENTS folder always the default folder?

[Ritter197]

I have a friend with windows xp and when he saves documents it sometimes
goes into a folder that may look like this: 96453312gh or similar, other
times it goes into the proper documents folder.

How can I help him to let his created documents always go to My Documents?
( because if it went to the other above example folder, he can never find it
again)

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have a friend with windows xp and when he saves documents it sometimes
goes into a folder that may look like this: 96453312gh or similar, other
times it goes into the proper documents folder.

How can I help him to let his created documents always go to My
Documents? ( because if it went to the other above example folder, he
can never find it again)

That would depend largely upon what specific application(s) he's using
to create the documents. Generally, somewhere within the Options or
Preferences for each application will be a setting to set the default
save location. It has little to nothing to do with WinXP.


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[Nil]

I have a friend with windows xp and when he saves documents it
sometimes goes into a folder that may look like this: 96453312gh
or similar, other times it goes into the proper documents folder.

How can I help him to let his created documents always go to My
Documents? ( because if it went to the other above example folder,
he can never find it again)

The default save location is determined by the program that saves the
document, not the operating system. Some programs have a setting at
allows you to change the default location. Some remember where you last
saved a document.

You don't say what kind of "document" you're referring to or what
program makes them, so we can't give you any specific suggestions.

 

[Ritter197]

Thank you both for your reply.
He uses WORD 2003 and Windows Live Mail . I think he has the problem mostly
or possibly exclusively in WORD 2003.

 

[Gord Dibben]

In Word 2003 Tools>Options>File Locations>Documents>Modify.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Ritter197]

Thanks, I have forwarded your reply to my friend.