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Windows 2000 automatically creates a folder on the C: drive called Documents and Settings. It then creates sub-folders for each User and stores things like My Documents, Favourites etc.

I've got a partition on my hard drive and I was wandering if it is possible to move the entire folder to the D: drive.

Thanks in advance....

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by pisces_ldh

I don't think so that u can move the entire documents and settings folder but u can use folder redirection setting in group policy to access some folders from other drive. These folders are
Application Data
Desktop
My Documents
My Pictures
Start Menu
Moreover u can limit the max size of user profile using group policy

Hope u get the answer. Pls feel free to email me

by benyo

Why would you want to do this? The only benefit I can think of is for not storing a huge amount of data in My Documents on the C drive. You can move the My Documents folder very easily. On the desktop, right click on My Documents and choose properties. Within the Target tab, click on Move and select a new place to store My Documents.

I will look into moving te entire Documents and Settings folder and get back to you.

by colin.mac

I've been using the change of location for My
Documents and pointed it to my D:\My Documents. But the reason I want to move the entire Documents and settings is because applications default to saving in the C:\Documents and settings\profiles..... even when you set the path to D:\My Documents in the options of the application. I think it's going to involve a bit of thinking to come up with the path for changing the Documents ad settings to point to the D: drive, what about in the registry ? anything we could change in there ?

p.s. I received an e-mail from Tech republic the other day instructing me to award points for a previous question i'd asked. As there's no obvious way of awarding and I've been a bit of a lazy arse when it comesto reading the rules, how do you award points ?

by colin.mac

How weird is that I just posted this answer as a reply to you and this is the first time i've seen these "Rate this answer" box, wot's that all about ?

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