Re: My Documents

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From: Billy (Billy_at_ukpuddle.co.uk)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:52 +0000

Billy wrote:

> Good Evening
>
> I use two partitions, one for Windows & programs, the other for data. I
> keep all my documents in the data partition. Is there a way for me to
> delete the "My Documents" folder the first partition? I try to ignore
> it however some programs seem to insist on using that folder.
>
> I feel the same way about "My Network Places", "My Pictures", and "My
> Shared Documents"
>
> My concern is about space as I use a digital camera & a web camera and
> seem, always, to end up with several copies of the images.
>
> I am using XP Pro SP2
>
> TIA
>
> Bill

Thank you all so much, I've moved the My documents folder to my data
partition and transferred my files to it and deleted "My Network Places"
from the desktop. I tried to delete the "Shared Documents" folder
however "it" wouldn't let me saying it was a Windows System Folder.

Bill

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