Hi Steve,
Yes. It's possible. But, don't use TweakUI for redirecting Shared folders.
Open Registry Editor and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
In the right-pane, look for the entry "Common Documents" and double-click it. The value which present there by default is "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents". Change the value to the redirected folder, say 'D:\SharedDocs'
Change the value here as well.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
To redirect the Shared Music, Shared Pictures and Shared Video folder along with Shared Documents, try this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
In the right-pane:
- Create a REG_SZ named "CommonMusic" and set it's path
- Create a REG_SZ named "CommonPictures" and set it's path
- Create a REG_SZ named "CommonVideo" and set it's path
No space in between (CommonVideo, CommonMusic, CommonVideo).
Once space in between for (Common Documents)
For the latter part, the credit goes to Keith Miller, who pointed out that this function (redirecting the shared folders) of TweakUI does not help.
Logoff and login back. See that the Shared folders are now redirected successfully.
--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Hi
Is there any way of moving the shared documents folder of XP Pro from it's
default location on drive C: to another physical drive ?
thks
Steve
