Vista - Personal User Shell Folders - Move Location

Shawn,

Thanks a lot for trying. I was hoping that there was something I missed. I assume that IE7 would pull the favorites location from the favorites user shell folder, but obviously that is not the case. It works flawlessly with IE7 and XPsp2.

Thanks for the help,
Aaron

Your welcome Aaron, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

I have set my desktop to another drive path: F:\from 98 machine\F_drive\All Data Saved here\My Desktop

and when I install a application and tell the new installed app to put a shortcut on the desktop it puts it on the original desktop and not the with the path of:
F:\from 98 machine\F_drive\All Data Saved here\My Desktop

Hi Scat, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Usually it is not a good idea to move the Desktop folder for this reason. The program was pre programed to create the shortcut at the known default location instead. You may have two Desktop folders now to since the program recreated the original. If you do, then use Method Two to restore the default location in the registry for the one you moved.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn!
I´ve read two of your tutorials now. Great work!
I changed the location for my music and documents to a diffrent partion before I read your tutorial. It worked ok, but with one thing I hope you could help me fix...
I can´t change the image for the musicfolder found in my user folder back to the traditional image with a folder and a note and cd inside. It only shows the icon of a hdd. Would appricate much if you could help!
I hope the screenshot shows what I mean, even if the text is in swedish...

Hello Rangeboy, and welcome to Vista Forums.

What is the new location path of the Music folder?

Have you already tried this tutorial on restoring the default icon?

Personal User Shell Folders

Shawn

Hello!
Now I´ve found more tutorials for things I didn´t know how to be done in vista! Wonderful!
Aah! I think I found the problem... As I told you, I did this before knowing about your tutorials... I right-click chosed "places" (or what it says in english) and moved to the root of another partition. So, I didn´t have a folder in the root called for example Music. So now I tried moving the Video folder, to a folder named video, and the special folder icon is still there!
I´m starting to realy like vista...

That's great news Rangeboy. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

Shawn

Hello shawn

Ok, so now everything seems to be in order... But now I was starting to change settings for my wifes login... And of course I found out that I want her shell music folder to be the same as my music folder... As I could guess it wasn´t as easy as just moving the location. But I´m not that worried. Probably you would have an answer! You seems to always have!
Thanks!
Rangeboy

Rangeboy,

You can move it like you did yours from the instructions in the tutorial, but you cannot use the exact same folder from yours for hers. You can place a shortcut of your folder inside her folder and vice versa.

Hope this helps,
Shawn