Special Folders Location

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Keith

I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I have
therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive with far more
free space and moved all my music into it.

What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as opposed to
the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know this is possible as
I did it once before on a previous PC, can anyone remind me please?

I am running Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks

Keith
 
or edit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders
 
Keith said:
I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I have
therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive with far more
free space and moved all my music into it.

What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as opposed
to the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know this is
possible as I did it once before on a previous PC, can anyone remind me
please?

I am running Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks

Keith
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders\My Music

sets the location of this folder if you are comfortable editing the registry
 
Keith said:
I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I
have therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive
with far more free space and moved all my music into it.

What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as
opposed to the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know
this is possible as I did it once before on a previous PC, can anyone
remind me please?

I am running Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks

Keith
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TweakUI from Microsoft for free will do that for you Keith.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
 
Keith said:
I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I have
therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive with far more
free space and moved all my music into it.

What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as opposed
to the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know this is
possible as I did it once before on a previous PC, can anyone remind me
please?

I am running Windows XP with SP2.

Thanks

Keith
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I moved the entire My Documents folder to the other drive.
 
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