re: Relocating system folders
Friday, June 8, 2001 at 6:06 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim Swearingen
(215 messages posted)
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
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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