-=PCTechTalk=- Moving your My Documents folder

Finally, here my simple tutorial on moving your My Documents folder to 
another partition (or anywhere, actually).

Open up Windows Explorer and choose the new location for the My Documents 
folder.  This location can even be on an external drive, but you MUST make 
sure that the drive is plugged in, turned on and functional each and every 
time you choose to boot up the system.  If you wish to share this folder 
among more than one Windows install, make sure that instruction applies to 
EVERY instance of Windows that relies on this folder.

Once you have chosen the new location, go to your present My Documents 
location, use the RIGHT mouse button to drag it to its new location, let go 
of the button and choose Move from the context menu.














That's all there is to it.



















Honest!    lol
Windows will automatically update the registry to point to the new location 
from now on.

If you wish to have a separate Windows installation also point to this 
location (multi boot on a single computer or two or more machines sharing 
data on a movable or networked external drive), do the same thing for the My 
Documents folder that the second (etc.) Windows install normally points to. 
Just make sure nothing inside it is going to overwrite anything inside the 
one on the external.  I usually manually move over everything inside in 
advance, renaming as necessary to prevent that from happening.

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DSWabc" <dswabc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:46 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Has anybody ever...


> 1. Used an external drive for their message store?
> 2. Used a second internal drive or an external drive for a)Windows Swap 
> file or b) My Documents?
>
> 3. Used remote assistance?
>
>
> If so would you please share any experiences and resources?  I have an 
> external drive now and would like to store all my data and mail folders 
> there instead of on drive C:.   I would then move the drive back and forth 
> between desktop and laptop as needed instead of trying to keep things 
> synchronized between the two computers.
>
> Also, my Mom finally upgraded to broadband and is now using IE6 and OE6 
> instead of Juno and it will be easier (I hope) for me to use Remote 
> Assistance to help her instead of driving 45 minutes oneway to do it in 
> person.  Especially as often as she will need help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don 


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