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Moving Document and Settings folder
Name: JP O'Gorman Date: August 21, 2002 at 08:02:18 Pacific
Comment:
Hi,
I want to move the location of the "Document and Settings" folder to the D drive ie non system drive. I changed some setting in the registry which appears to make it work only I'm having other problems with my registry because of this so I will have to back it out.
Name: mike Date: August 21, 2002 at 08:06:06 Pacific
Reply:
you may not be able to as there are so many sbdirectories that windows uses (and many other programs like Outlook for pst and pab files). It is likely much more trouble than it is worth.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bill Date: August 21, 2002 at 08:42:12 Pacific
Reply:
You may have already seen this article during your quest - but if not should help.
Summary: Can anybody tell me: is it possible to change location of "Documents and Settings" folder. It irritates me, because it is placed in root. I would like to move it somewhere else e.g. "C:\WINNT\Document...
Summary: IS there a way I can make my documents and settings folder on a seperate drive then my system drive easily?? like right now all my documents and settings are on my c: drive but I would like them on m...
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