Change The Location Of The Documents Folder In Vista

This works well for the person’s individual documents. What about moving the Public Documents or Public Photos folders? These don’t have the “Move” button or ability to change the path from the GUI.

Change the Public folder locations in the registry. Run regedit and change the values within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Folders

what to do if i accinentaly deleted one of those folders like the pictures-folder. how can i create a folder i can change its location? the location-tab in the properties is missing in standard-folders.

i’d appreciate suggestions

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In Vista Document under properties, there is no location tab. I could move Pictures, video, Music to D drive as they have location tab, but in Documents, the Location tab is missing. Any solution

Is this for real? If you want to change the location of your vista ‘My Documents’ folder (aka ‘Mike’ in my case), you need to go in and change the registry? I get the feeling that I’m missing something. There’s got to be an easier way (is there?)
Thanks,

Mike

I agree - this is really strange. For me the music, videos, and photos folders are network mount points. I see a location box, but I can’t actually change what’s in it. Really annoying since I’d rather not store stuff on a mount point, but have it local.

beren

I read the post, but was confuzzeled as i thought to myself how can it be that I need to use the registry, right clicking od Documents for me yielded no joy, but alas a quick right click on the taskbar, clickety click on properties, yet another fast left click on the the Start Menu Tab, changed it from classic start menu style to just “Start menu” — original. And then followed the instructions again, and Voila, there was the hidden Tab, that I was looking for….

i have an interesting situation with VISTA Ultimate. my IE favorites are now being saved to c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofiles. the original favorites are in c:\users\myacct\favorites. the registry indicates that they should be going to c:\users\myacct\favorites. I copied my favorites to this location, but i am not comfortable with the change. how can i get the favorites to return to their original destination?

Thanks,

Ray

When I set up my new laptop with Vista Home Premium I moved my Documents folder to my file server. But something has gone wrong now. When I via start menu select Documents nothing happens (if I select e.g. music instead I get an explorer with my music) If right-click Documents I can only see a totally blank General page and I cannot change anything. How can I reset this ??

Thanks!

It worked like a charm. Changed the location of my default music-folder.

I had the same as Soren. You may have had the Music folder directed to a drive that is no longer available. I connected to that drive and could reset the location to the default.

The Fix can also be found here:

http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/138418-duplicate-folders-created-when-redirecting.html

I have tried this three times. Program files get loaded into this folder, but other files (Video) for some reason keep going to the C:users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp folder which is a hidden folder. Have lost nine downloads because the temp folder gets erased before I can move the files from this location to another hard drive. At least in the download folder this never happened.