Changing default My Document location

Tony · External Since: Jun 23, 2005 Posts: 8

The Documents and Settings folder is normally located in C drive. I am
wondering if I could change the default location of My Document for all the
terminal users to D drive.

Regards,
Tony

"Pegasus · External Since: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 1845

You can change the location for "My Documents" but I don't think
you can change "Documents and Settings", unless you're prepared
to do some fancy (and unsupported) registry hacking.

"Tony" <tony.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The Documents and Settings folder is normally located in C drive. I am
> wondering if I could change the default location of My Document for all
the
> terminal users to D drive.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
>

Tony · External Since: Jun 23, 2005 Posts: 8

Is there anyway I can make a system wide change, so that everyone's My
Documents is, says, under D:\Documents\username?

Regards,
Tony

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can.RemoveThis@fly.com> wrote in message
news:%2352cD0y4FHA.3192@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> You can change the location for "My Documents" but I don't think
> you can change "Documents and Settings", unless you're prepared
> to do some fancy (and unsupported) registry hacking.
>
>
> "Tony" <tony.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eMsdyay4FHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > The Documents and Settings folder is normally located in C drive. I am
> > wondering if I could change the default location of My Document for all
> the
> > terminal users to D drive.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tony
> >
> >
>
>

"Pegasus · External Since: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 1845

Use the standard approach for creating a profile:
1. Log on under your account.
2. Set "My Documents" to your preferred location.
3. Copy your profile to "Default User".

Every new user will now have "My Documents" pointing
to the location you specified in Step 2 above.

"Tony" <tony.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%238xpsy14FHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Is there anyway I can make a system wide change, so that everyone's My
> Documents is, says, under D:\Documents\username?
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can.TakeThisOut@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:%2352cD0y4FHA.3192@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > You can change the location for "My Documents" but I don't think
> > you can change "Documents and Settings", unless you're prepared
> > to do some fancy (and unsupported) registry hacking.
> >
> >
> > "Tony" <tony.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:eMsdyay4FHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > The Documents and Settings folder is normally located in C drive. I am
> > > wondering if I could change the default location of My Document for
all
> > the
> > > terminal users to D drive.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Vera Noest [MVP] · External Since: Feb 02, 2005 Posts: 441

And if you want to change it for existing users as well, configure
a Group Policy with Folder redirection:

User Configuration - Windows Settings - Folder Redirection
"My Documents"

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"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can RemoveThis @fly.com> wrote on 07 nov 2005 in
microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.misc:

> Use the standard approach for creating a profile:
> 1. Log on under your account.
> 2. Set "My Documents" to your preferred location.
> 3. Copy your profile to "Default User".
>
> Every new user will now have "My Documents" pointing
> to the location you specified in Step 2 above.
>
>
> "Tony" <tony RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%238xpsy14FHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Is there anyway I can make a system wide change, so that
>> everyone's My Documents is, says, under D:\Documents\username?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tony
>>
>> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can RemoveThis @fly.com> wrote in message
>> news:%2352cD0y4FHA.3192@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > You can change the location for "My Documents" but I don't
>> > think you can change "Documents and Settings", unless you're
>> > prepared to do some fancy (and unsupported) registry hacking.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Tony" <tony RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:eMsdyay4FHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> > > The Documents and Settings folder is normally located in C
>> > > drive. I am wondering if I could change the default
>> > > location of My Document for
> all
>> > the
>> > > terminal users to D drive.
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > > Tony

ricer46 · Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 1

It's actually fairly easy to do with no registry "hack."
Read the first link from the url below for instructions:
http://home.satx.rr.com/ricer46/select.htm

wshareef · Joined: Jul 10, 2008 Posts: 1

Changing the MyDocument location from properties may help, but your outlook will store your *.pst files in system drive (C: ).
The best way is to change the Profile Directory. So far I have tried it on a new installation (WinXP). U can figure out a way to do so on an existing installation. This is how:
* When installing a new system make more than one user.
* After you have installed just the OS, login into user1 and run regedit.exe
* go to the following registry entry: * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
* Take a backup of this by exporting it to C:\
* Change the value of ProfilesDirectory to "D:\Documents and Settings" or whatever u want
* Logout and log into user2. It will then prepare the profile of user2 in the new location.
*From the users accounts in control panel delete user1 and then recreate it, so that all the new settings will be created in the new location.
There u go Smile