Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Change Special Folder Location

Special folders such as My Documents, Desktop, and so on can be changed to any other location from that set by the default installation. This hack will change the locations.There are 2 ways tto do this



  • First, just move the required folders to the new locations. This will change the location of the folder.


  • Second Just open Regedit(START>>RUN>>Type REGEDIT)



    Navigate to:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders




    Now change the paths of the folders. HKEY_CURRENT_USER is for current_user's folder only .Change it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for All users. The change should take effect immediately. Back up your registry before you do it(click here)

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