re: Relocating system folders
Sunday, August 25, 2002 at 9:39 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by tania
(1 messages posted)
Anyone know how I can create customised system folders on my desktop (Windows 98
SE)? I used to have instructions but I can't seem to find the site anymore. I want
to make system folders (not shortcuts) to some of the stuff I access on my PC most
often. Thanks!
Tania
On Friday, June 8, 2001 at 6:06 am, Jim Swearingen wrote:
>
To add to what Bob has said, you can relocate both folders, as well as a
>number of others, with TweakUI.
>
> Note, also, that you can rename those folders at the same time. On my
>system, C:\My Documents has been moved, and renamed, to E:\_Documents. Placing
>the underscore (or any other ASCII character, 33 through 64) at the beginning of
>the name causes the folder to be displayed at the top of the list, ahead of any
>folder name beginning with a capital letter.
>
> Jim Swearingen
>
>JSS3rd@earthlink.net
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>
>On Fri, 8 Jun, 2001 - 3:45, Bobstur wrote:
>To move My Documents folder to D: first Copy the folder to D: and then
>verify
>all the files are in D:\My Documents. Now right click on your My Documents
>folder
>on the Desktop and select Properties. In the box, change the path to D:\My
>Documents
>and click OK. Now you can open Windows Explorer, scroll to C:\Windows\My
>Documents
>and delete it to recover its space on C:.
> To relocate the C:\Windows\Desktop folder use the same kind of process and then
>use TweakUI to change the path where Windows will find it. In Tweak UI go to
>the My Computer
>tab | Special Folders box and change to path for Desktop. Without Tweak UI you'd
>need to hack the registry to change the path to Desktop.
>
>On Fri, 8 Jun, 2001 - 3:23, rpkeeling wrote:
>
My c drive is quite small compared to my d drive. Is there a
>way of relocating (shortcut) the 'My Documents' folder onto
>the d drive instead? (But making sure that Win98 still thinks
>it's on the c drive) I'd also like to do this with my
>'Desktop' folder.
>
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