Changing mydocuments system-wide

[cafeenman]

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.

[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...

[cafeenman]

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...

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.

Cool new avatar, btw.

[Behemoth]

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

[Behemoth]

aha! found some more stuff...

http://www.computing.net/windows2000...rum/31219.html

and

http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/registry/rtips21.shtml

[cafeenman]

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.

[Guv]

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.

[cafeenman]

I have tweakui. I didn't realize it had this functionality. Thanks.