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Documents and Settings default location change
You will clean out the contents of your "D:\My Documents" directory. The CD command will change the current directory on the C: drive to the %TEMP% directory, but it does not change the Now, if your TEMP dir is not in the normal place (C:\WINDOWS\TEMP), then you should have put commands in your AUTOEXEC.

Change location of "My Documents"
After all, the safest place for the backup drive is in a different location altogether, like I do with my two Maxtor 250GB external drives--I have one attached to our You might also want to right-click on My Documents shortcut on Desktop, Properties, and change the actual folder's location to D:\My Documents.

Change Icons for My Pictures, My Music, etc.
MAke a folder on the second drive that matches with the user, then open a window on it, while logged on as that user and one on C:\Documents and Settings\theuser\ to show My Documents. *Right* drag the folder across, taking *Move* here. This will then be the automatic place for his files. I *think* that simple file

change folder attributes
That way, every file stays in it's original location and you just change the place the My Docs folder is looking. Mickey Reilley wrote: How can I change SWX to "start in" my network CAD directory instead of "My Documents"? Changing the "start in" directory in the shortcut doesn't seem to make a difference.

Change my documents to point to the D:\
For the registry hack, locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DataServices You can change the location here, but it must be to a sub folder of My Documents or the results are unpredictable. For a sub folder called - say - Test, enter Test in place of My Data Services.

How to change My Documents Drive
I've type in cd My Documents. I've typed in c:\My Documents I've tried to change the C: prompt This assumes 1 we are working on c: and the directory 'My Documents' exists and the command prompt opens at h:\> 1. change drive to c first h:\> c: 2. from any place on c: C:\> cd \My Documents 3. you are now in the

Change the Default to "My Documents"
Alex Nichol alexn.mvp...@ntlworld.delete.com microsoft public windowsxp general (n wrote: I placed another "My Documents" file in D: to save there all my work. I want that all files ready to be saved, go there when the "save as" option is called. How can I change the default place: C:\Documents and settings\"user

Want to change desktop Icon
Actually this applies to all the Office products, but I use Excel the most. When I go to open an existing file, the first place Excel always wants to look in is "My Documents". How can I permanently change this to initially point to a different directory/location? Joe joemagi...@ameritech.net.

How do I change attachment default program in Outlook 2000
PUB98: How to Change the Working Folder http://support.microsoft.com/default. aspx?scid=kb;en-us;178847 -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ Every time I save my work I am directed to My Documents. I want to save in another place. How do I do that? Blair.

Can't Change Shared Music/Pictures Registry Entries
If you want to store specific documents in a location other than My Documents, you could put a link (a favorite) to that location in the My Documents folder. select customize/commands/built-in menus scroll down the list on the right to 'work' and drag it to a suitable place on the menu bar. Documents that you

How to change saving from My documents to another place?
***MS*Publisher*** qua...@someone.com microsoft public publisher What version of Publisher are you using? "Blair" <darr...@coille.com> wrote in message news:e0wN8DtAGHA.216@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl... Every time I save my work I am directed to My Documents. I want to save in another place. How do I do that? Blair.

Need help with multiple sets of OE folder storage
Place the folder under All Users, and it can be shared and will still be protected by the My Documents structure. Note there is a difference when you open of the My Documents directory [the important point to understand is that I am referring to attempts to change the path on the ON installation on the laptop!

Change the place of the folder "Documents and Setting"s in ...
You should be using folder redirection for My Documents, Desktop, Application Data. All users' Outlook data should be in Exchange; the only local component What you could have done to prevent this, presuming a full SBS/AD rebuild was actually necessary in the first place (you haven't made that clear): a) used

Change the place of the folder "Documents and Setting"s in ...
How to relocate the following files *without problems*: - My recent documents - History (in IE | Tools | Options | General Tab) - Cookies [NB: I think the method of "cut-and-paste" doesn't work. Once I tried moving favorites to another partition. Unfortunately the IE didn't detect the change and displayed nothing

How to move user profiles [Re: partition question]
It is a logo I copied and pasted from the sports team website then stored in My Documents. How do I make it an .ico file? And where would be a more appropriate place to file it? Once I change the icon I want to drag it down to the task bar for easy access while I have other programs open.

Spice a la CM for Dummies - Part 1
... microsoft public win2000 general microsoft public win2000 setup_deployment *ght click on My Documents folder from within explorer,select properties and then MOVE. I need to know how to: Change the place of the folder "Documents and Setting"s in Windows 2000 Is there anyone here who can help me.

Documents being saved in word format.........why the change
When a project is open and I click "options" under "tools," I have no option to change that path. When I click "help" on that option page, I am presented with a description of an option concerning "path to my documents," but no place can I find to accomplish that. It is easy with other Microsoft applications,

My Dot Prompt
This will change the default location for all files. You can make the root of any partition the My Documents folder. Tweak UI 1.33 for Windows 2000, touched) You will find it very handy indeed if you put all your documents or any work you create in one place so it is very easy then to backup your data easily.

Can you change the icon for common folders without putting a ...
Everytime I go to open a html page in FrontPage 2000 it starts at the default of "My Documents\My Webs". Does anyone know how to change the defaults to another folder please. FP98 was good where when you went to open a file it would start at the same place you left off. FP2000 doesn't do this for some reason.

Change Location of My Documents Folder
Diane Poremsky [MVP] outlook...@msn.com microsoft public outlook general Do you have a red x in the picture place holder? You can do this either from My Documents or the Desktop. If you want to use one application in Outlook and a different one from windows explorer or the desktop (such as for editing),