Re: Shared Documents Folder

Documents & Settings folder to the D: drive

This has to be done during an unattended installation. For alternate method,
see MS-KB article 314843
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843)

Are these to be left alone

The three keys need no modificiation. Leave them alone.

Lastly, will this customisation be recognised by all software installed
on the pc. I have adobe, microsoft & roxio products installed?

The customization will be recognized by most of the moden software, which
uses the CSIDL values to get the path of a special folder. More info on
CSIDL is available here.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/enums/csidl.asp)

Hope WMP respects the setting.

I am running XP MCE 2005

Don't have and MCE system to test, but should work fine.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Nicrite" <Nicrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for that. Before I do this can I clear somethings up please.

I also asked whether it was possible to simply move/redirect the entire
Documents & Settings folder to the D: drive. If so how is this done?

As to your instructions, do these keys already exist or do they need
creating? I have also seen some similar keys under;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ Shell Folders

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Preferences

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ DocFolderPaths

Are these to be left alone, or are these they keys you are referring to, and
if so they just require modifying?

Lastly, will this customisation be recognised by all software installed on
the pc. I have adobe, microsoft & roxio products installed?

Hope you can answer all these questions easily, sorry it seems so many for
one post, but they are really relating to my original post.

Oh, something I forgot about, though I don't know if it makes any
difference, I am running XP MCE 2005

THanks and best regards

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

To redirect the Shared Music, Shared Pictures and Shared Video folder
along
with Shared Documents, try this: (from Keith Miller)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ User Shell Folders



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