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I have been setting my system up pretty much the same way for years and it's really frustrating to have to traverse through a half-dozen folders to get to where I actually save things.
Does anyone know a way to change the location where windows will try to save a file by default?
Basically I want "my documents" to point to C:\Documents,
Not
c:\documents and settings\my name\some other crap\my documents.
AFAIK its somewhere in your registry. Not much help, I know but at least it gives you a ball park to play in.
will be dependent upon your version of windows too...
I have XP. I'm sure you're right about it being in the registry, but I don't mess with the registry unless I am sure that I know what I'm looking at. With microsoft stuff, you never know what a key really is, so unless someone knows the sure answer, I'm not touching it. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Behemoth
AFAIK its somewhere in your registry. Not much help, I know but at least it gives you a ball park to play in.
will be dependent upon your version of windows too...
Cool new avatar, btw. :)
I tend to find a number of general Google searches can point you in the right direction...
Is this any help? seems slightly unrelated, but hey...
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/...my=%2Fpr%2F5e3
oh, and thanks :)
aha! found some more stuff...
http://www.computing.net/windows2000...rum/31219.html
and
http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/registry/rtips21.shtml
Got it. Thanks behemoth. I'm not sure if it works for my pictures, but I'll try next time I save a "goats in chains" jpg. :)
Thanks again.
The Tweakui utility will do this for you. It will also do a lot of other handy functions.
I think you can download this from somewhere. Perhaps the PC Magazine site.
Maybe a search for Tweakui will find it. Not sure if you should search for tweakui of tweak ui.
I have tweakui. I didn't realize it had this functionality. Thanks.