Re: Customize MyDocuments
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:27:55 -0700
Lost_in_sight wrote:
I learned long ago that when the system crashes and the drive has to
be formatted,
For anybody who knows what he's doing, the need to do that is extremely
rare.
I did not want my personal files to be there too. So I
NEVER put my personal files on the same drive with the operating
system. That would be crazy!
I don't think it's crazy at all. It's a choice. People have different need
and ways of working, and what's right for one person isn't necessarily right
for everyone. In particular, if their backup scheme is one that backs up
their data, but not the operating system, separating the operating system
and their data on different partitions facilitates that backup. For those
whose backup scheme consists of making an image of everything on the hard
drive, there is much less value to separating data on its own partition.
However, that is where "My Documents" is. And with XP, it seems to
have become a religion.
Not at all. It's easy enough to change.
Is there anyway to reassign the location of
"My Documents" so that I don't have to navigate away from it every
time some application thinks my files should be there?
Sure. The free Microsoft TweakUI will do this, and many other useful things,
for you.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp (if you have
SP1 or SP2 installed)
or
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
(if you don't have SP1 or SP2).
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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