Ok Lets try this again - Proper way to move default folders


  1. Dorfdad
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    Windows 7 7264
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    Ok Lets try this again - Proper way to move default folders


    Ok im going to try this again but this time im asking for help :) tired of half ass working things you know! Anyway..

    I just installed fresh Windows 7 x64 and have a secondary harddrive installed drive E: on drive E I have folders called My Music / My Documents / My Pictures etc... and I want windows to not look or use c:\users\xxx folders as the default.

    Previously I right click these and said MOVE to e:\ which some worked some didn't while others had security issues galore. I want to know the proper way to move the folders paths to existing directories on the E drive. Can someone please inform me of the RIGHT fullproof way to so this?

    Thanks in advance.

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  3. karlsnooks
    Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
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    Village Pop,

    Brink wrote a tutorial on this. Now let's see if I can locate it.

    OK. I failed to find it.

    Someone else will most assuredly jump in with the link.
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  4. myzr7
    Posts : 1,797
    Windows 7 Ulti. x64
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    Maybe this is what you are wanting to do?
    Library - Set Save Folder

    or maybe this User Folders - Change Default Location
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