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10-08-2006
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| | RE: Default Users/My User location, is it possible to move the default to D:/ drive? How on Earth do I 'move' the default Users/... to a different folder/drive? Does anyone know, anywhere? Previously on XP C:/My Documents and Settings/My User moved to D:/My User I have tried and failed to move the default location of just one of the folders in the User/... directory to the D drive. Tried to move C:/Users/.../downloads to D:/My User/... All it did was change D:/My User/... folder to D:/downloads Whenever I try and move another C;user/folder anywhere on the D: drive, Vista puts it in the D:/downloads folder. When I check the D:/downloads folder, it isnt there.... I cant be alone in this.... Although I feel like a lonely voice, crying meekly in the dark... |
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10-08-2006
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| | Re: Default Users/My User location, is it possible to move the default to D:/ drive? Don't think in terms of XP. You will have to relearn how to do things in Vista. "William Topping" <william.topping@gmail.com> wrote in message news:EC7624E8-9EF7-4EC5-A00B-5FCDE37C1E09@microsoft.com... > How on Earth do I 'move' the default Users/... to a different > folder/drive? Does anyone know, anywhere? > > Previously on XP > > C:/My Documents and Settings/My User > > moved to > > D:/My User > > I have tried and failed to move the default location of just one of the > folders in the User/... directory to the D drive. > > Tried to move > > C:/Users/.../downloads > to > D:/My User/... > > All it did was change > > D:/My User/... folder > to > D:/downloads > > Whenever I try and move another C;user/folder anywhere on the D: drive, > Vista puts it in the D:/downloads folder. When I check the D:/downloads > folder, it isnt there.... > > I cant be alone in this.... Although I feel like a lonely voice, crying > meekly in the dark... > |
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10-08-2006
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| | Re: Default Users/My User location, is it possible to move the default to D:/ drive? Ahh, so is there anyway to point the virtual folders in the users directory to a different drive. I would have thought the default save location for IE, Office, etc would be C:/Users/.... And its basically this location which I wish to change. And without changing it in each application. When I change the location in XP, whenever I save using an application, the default is now my D:/MyDocs/ destination. I find this very useful. Im sure its possible in Vista. Its nice to think in schematics and all, but if the default save location is my C: Drive, its going to get full pretty quick... And could u elaborate on how what I ask is acheiveable by thinking in Vista rather than XP? "SAM-R" <SAM-R@news.postalias> wrote in message news:%23tk0d7v6GHA.4352@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Don't think in terms of XP. You will have to relearn how to do things in > Vista. > "William Topping" <william.topping@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:EC7624E8-9EF7-4EC5-A00B-5FCDE37C1E09@microsoft.com... >> How on Earth do I 'move' the default Users/... to a different >> folder/drive? Does anyone know, anywhere? >> >> Previously on XP >> >> C:/My Documents and Settings/My User >> >> moved to >> >> D:/My User >> >> I have tried and failed to move the default location of just one of the >> folders in the User/... directory to the D drive. >> >> Tried to move >> >> C:/Users/.../downloads >> to >> D:/My User/... >> >> All it did was change >> >> D:/My User/... folder >> to >> D:/downloads >> >> Whenever I try and move another C;user/folder anywhere on the D: drive, >> Vista puts it in the D:/downloads folder. When I check the D:/downloads >> folder, it isnt there.... >> >> I cant be alone in this.... Although I feel like a lonely voice, crying >> meekly in the dark... >> > > |
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