-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Moving your My Documents folder

WOW.  Couldn't get any easier than that, so I'll try to make it more 
difficult instead. :-))

Placing My Documents (and the mail store and page file) on an external drive 
requires the drive be plugged in, turned on and connected to the computer 
being booted up.

Is there a risk of drive letter confusion?  Examples:   With one or more 
flash drives connected the external drive might be drive H:, but take them 
out and it might become Drive F:  On the Desktop the configuration might 
make the external Drive X: and on the Laptop Drive G:.

In my case the drive will move between my desktop and my laptop.  I don't 
expect to implement these changes until after I am happy with the Pro 
install and get rid of XP Home so there will be no question of moving 
between Home and Pro on the desktop.

Don


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: -=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.


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