Remap home folder
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Does anyone know if it's possible to remap the home folder to a different locatoin? When I was using XP I had My Documents mapped to my E drive so if I formatted I wouldn't have to backup the files and my E drive is much larger than my C drive. I see that I can still remap the documents folder, but since that isn't really the root "home" folder anymore it's not as convenient. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks
- Aaron
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Does anyone know if it's possible to remap the home folder to a different locatoin? When I was using XP I had My Documents mapped to my E drive so if I formatted I wouldn't have to backup the files and my E drive is much larger than my C drive. I see that I can still remap the documents folder, but since that isn't really the root "home" folder anymore it's not as convenient. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks
- Aaron
Try this: (Note before you start you might want to back-up your registry as this requires an important registry key change .) 1.Click on start 2.Run 3.regedit , click ok 4.Registry editor opens 5.Find this key :HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\HOMEPATH 6. the key should have the value address of the My Documents in it. For instance if your my documents folder is in C:\Documents and settings\admin then the key would have this address in it. 7. double click on the key and then put a \ and the address you want your my documents folder to be in. For example /C:\Documents and settings\admin would mean that your documents folder would be in this address C:\Documents and settings\admin Hope this helps!;) PS: Notice you can also change the main drive you use e.g change this key if you want to NOT RECOMMENDED THOUGH. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\HOMEDRIVE