Re: Moving History Folder

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thank you for answer. just cutting and moving is not working. i tried to find registry key show the way but i couldnt. so i did research but i couldnt find anything for example i looked technet.com. anyway thank you again.
"Alec S." <@> wrote in message news:Oek$3bV9GHA.3264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Ayush" <ayushmaan.j[aatt]gmail.com> wrote in message news:u2kg7iU9GHA.2248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: Hi. When exploring internet with internet explorer, it saves recent web
: pages in history folder in c:\documents and settings\"user name"\history but
: i want internet explorer to save recent web pages in d:\history folder. I
: looked registry to change the way that history folder uses but i couldnt
: find. how can i change the history folder from c:\documents and
: settings\user\history to d:\history ?

Please search before posting............


Did you consider that maybe they already did search? It's not exactly a common question that would return thousands of results.

http://www.ieinfosite.co.uk/tip_view.asp?id=43

It's hardly as simple as that page would make it out to be. It says to cut and paste the folder, but the folder will not be moved
since files in there (especially index.dat files) are in use while Windows is running, so you cannot move the folder (at least not
without losing data).


If simply moving the folder does not work (and it probably won't), then boot into safe mode and try it again (that page neglects to
mention this part). If that still doesn't work (although it should), then you can manually change the setting. Create a text file
and paste this into it:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"History"="D:\\History"

Save it somewhere (eg the Desktop) as "MoveHistoryFolder.reg" then double-click it and say Yes to merge. Now open C:\Documents and
Settings\%username%, and COPY the History folder to D:\. Reboot and you should now have what you want (don't forget to delete the
original History folder from C:).


HTH

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Alec S.
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