I now have Vista and I can't seem to find how to set the default working
folder when I open my computer/my drive
Can you help me with this?

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:01 -0700, Cheri
<Cheri@newsgroup> wrote:

>I now have Vista and I can't seem to find how to set the default working
>folder when I open my computer/my drive
>Can you help me with this?

Vista tends to default of c:\users\you\documents for almost
everything, regardless of what the same programs might have done in
previous versions of MS-windows. Very annoying "feature" and no doubt
due to Vista's alleged security improvements.

Do you want to move YOUR c:\users\you\documents folder? Or do you want
it to remember another folder as the default? You can do the former, I
don't think the latter is going to fly unless someone knows a registry
hack. You might be able to drag the documents folder elsewhere and
have it follow it as it did in previous versions of Windows - I have
not tried that.

+Bob+

Excellent answer

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"+Bob+" <nomailplease@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:49:01 -0700, Cheri
> <Cheri@newsgroup> wrote:
>

>>I now have Vista and I can't seem to find how to set the default working
>>folder when I open my computer/my drive
>>Can you help me with this?

>
>
> Vista tends to default of c:\users\you\documents for almost
> everything, regardless of what the same programs might have done in
> previous versions of MS-windows. Very annoying "feature" and no doubt
> due to Vista's alleged security improvements.
>
> Do you want to move YOUR c:\users\you\documents folder? Or do you want
> it to remember another folder as the default? You can do the former, I
> don't think the latter is going to fly unless someone knows a registry
> hack. You might be able to drag the documents folder elsewhere and
> have it follow it as it did in previous versions of Windows - I have
> not tried that.
>
>

On 9/17/09, the entity Cheri wrote this:

> I now have Vista and I can't seem to find how to set the default working
> folder when I open my computer/my drive
> Can you help me with this?

Maybe something in here will help you:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307856

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