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by sparent
I'm not sure about moving the whole Desktop but couldn't you simply create a folder on your D: drive, put a shortcut of it on your Desktop and, finally, move Desktop items in that folder? (I'm not sure if you want, or can, move them all but you probably can make it a lot more tidy!)
You always have the choice of leaving the Folder open or closed. (It's looks a lot like the old Win3.x desktop!)
Regards,
St?phane
by jsarinana
by rcom
There's various ways to do this but htis works for me. Run regedit and go to the following key.
HKEYLOCALMACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/PROFILELIST/USERNAME
When you get to this key it will show the path for your profile folder on the right side. Don't change the path until you copy the profile folder to the new location. Backup the registry before making changes and make a copy don't move the profile folder. If you don't use profiles then you'll need to go to control panel and select users. Make a new user or copy the current user, make a password and select choices for what you want included. The desktop is the first item.
This will create a profile.
The default is,
C:\Windows\Profiles\Username
Findthe profile folder mentioned and copy it to the new location you want. Then run regedit find the key mentioned then change the path to the new location.
by rcom
Opps, Sorry I forgot I was looking at the XP forum. Gave you some wrong info. The default folder for profiles in XP is
C:\Documents and Settings
From the control panel select Administrative tools, then Computer Management open the user folder and select the name that you want to change the profile for. In the tabs across the top there is one for Profiles click that and the first choice is path. Type in the path you want and that will take care of that.
by jsarinana
by jsarinana
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