Re: Windows 7

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:15:00 GMT, Johnny B Good
<jcs.computersbutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:47:07 GMT, Johnny B Good
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On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:05:10 GMT, Johnny B Good
<jcs.computersbutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've relocated my 'Desktop' folder, but it's a rather tedious business
involving a whole bunch of registry changes. You'd think there'd be a
suitable utility to automate this process by now (and there well might
be one by now - I just haven't searched for one) but it seems unlikely
one would be forthcoming for such an esoteric need.

TweakUI will do it in one go.

Are you sure it will do _that_?

Yup. Since maybe 2003 I've used TweakUI to repoint My Docs, Desktop,
Favorites (sic), and SendTo over to another drive - the latter three
as folders within My Documents (or D:\JaimieDocs\ as it really is).

I've googled and found a reference to ver 1.33 for win2k and the later
version 2.10 which seems to be for winXP/server 2003 but not, by
implication, for win2k.

That's right - 1.33 is the one to have for Win2000, I still keep a
copy of it in my software tree. It does exactly what I said it does,
plus other folders besides. It's in the "My Computer" tab.

1.33 works in XP as well, btw. I'd completely forgotten that it was a
control panel applet back then - apologies for that, mea culpa.

Add/Remove uninstalls 1.33 correctly here, btw - but that's in an XP
machine, which may be different.

It doesn't help one bit that I haven't been able to find a
comprehensive list of all of its features to check whether it's even
worth bothering with. The only reason I know that a version of tweakui
offers this facility at all is from your post.

Even the help file doesn't detail which folders it can move. So I
will:

Common Program Files
Desktop
Document Templates
Favorites
Installation Path
My Documents
My Music
My Pictures
My Video
Program Files
Programs
Recent Documents
Send To
Start Menu
Startup

Some of those I don't know (or care) what they are; one or two of the
others look like they'll cause a world of pain if you dick with them.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would
have kept it for themselves." - Joseph Lane Kirkland
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