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by jsarinana

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How can I store my desktop which is located on my C drive onto another hard drive on the same computer D drive ?

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by thechas

If you mean that you want to "back-up" your desktop settings, the answer is not simple.

The icons are stored at either
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop and
C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Desktop
or
C:\Windows\Desktop

The Wallpaper is stored at different places for different versions of Windows.
Your font and other display settings are stored in the registry.

That said, I believe I saw a utility for backing up desktop settings. But, darned if I can remember where.
Most likely, either at www.nonags.com, or www.completelyfreesoftware.com

Chas

by ryan_j

If you were asking about physically changing the location of the desktop files, you could try modifying the User Shell Folders in the registry:

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

As far as ican remember, creating a new key named "Desktop" with it's value being the location you want to store your desktop files will do this.

Although to be honest i wouldn't recommend messing about with Regedit unless you have a fair idea what you aredoing.

by ryan_j

cutting and pasting everything below the line into notepad and saving as FILENAME.VBS would also create a script you could use to do this.

I still haven't tested this and YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. I have no idea if this will even work.
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Dim MoveDesktop
Set MoveDesktop = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MoveDesktop.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Desktop", "D:\desktop"
MoveDesktop.Popup "Registry has been updated!"

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