Comments on: How To Change The Location Of My Documents Folder In Windows XP

By: Waqar

Waqar — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:22:51 +0000

Changing the MyDocument location from properties may help, but your outlook will store your *.pst files in system drive (C:). And any new users created will also be created in the default location.
The best way is to change the Profile Directory in registry. So far I have tried it on a new installation (WinXP). U can figure out a way to do so on an existing installation. This is how:
* When installing a new system make more than one user.
* After you have installed just the OS, login into user1 and run regedit.exe
* go to the following registry entry: * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
* Take a backup of this by exporting it to C:\
* Change the value of ProfilesDirectory to "D:\Documents and Settings" or whatever u want
* Logout and log into user2. It will then prepare the profile of user2 in the new location.
*From the users accounts in control panel delete user1 and then recreate it, so that all the new settings will be created in the new location.
This will use the new location as the default location for all data related to any user.
There u go

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:11:19 +0000

You need to change the target or install directory during the install. Normally you have to go into advanced install or when it gives you an option for the type of install click on the one for advanced users. Then when the directory comes up just press change and set it to the directory u want.

Hope that helps

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:58 +0000

@Karina

I'll need a little more info. What is "sims"?

By: Karina

Karina — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:05:17 +0000

Okay, I have 2 hard drives, and I'm trying to install sims but it keeps trying to install on hard drive C:, how do I change the target drive? So when it downloads it ownloads on hard drive D:

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:43:18 +0000

@Patrick

The simplest method is to create a user profile and customize it as required. See the following article from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974

NOTE: Before overwriting the default user profile template, it is a advisable to make a backup copy of the default user profile.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:14:16 +0000

I was wondering how to change the default location of the document and settings folder to a different drive on windows XP. The idea is that whenever a new profile is created it defaults to the other drive instead of C:

By: Watching The Net

Watching The Net — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:02:51 +0000

@jonel

Check Word to make sure it is pointing to the new location where you moved My Documents on the D:\ drive. Refer to this article for changing the default save location in Word:

http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-change-the-default-location-for-saving-microsoft-word-documents.html

By: jonel

jonel — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:27:47 +0000

i just want to move my documents to drive d but the problem is when i save a word files it also save to my documents on drive c and d and and if i delete the files from my documents on c both my documents on c and d are gone..i want my documents stay at drive d…hope u can help me my problem..thanks