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move documents location?
Name: neal Date: September 23, 2008 at 02:27:26 Pacific OS: vista business SP1 32 bit CPU/Ram: athlon64x2 6000+/4GB Product: home build
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When I had windows XP, I had all my documents stored on a different drive to the OS, which was fine as I could just go into the properties of the 'my documents' folder, and change where it pointed, then everything worked fine. Now I have vista, which does everything differently by splitting the pictures, videos etc out of the documents folder separately, and doesn't seem to give the option of making those folders point at custom locations. Does anyone know if this is possible in vista? Thank you
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Summary: If you move your documents to the Vista Documents folder, that should solve your problem. You can change the default location of your document folder in XP to the Vista folder. ...
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