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I am using Win XP Professional
What do i need to change in the Registry in order to
set "My Documents" to a specific folder for ALL users!
Thanks
Stephen
 
What do you mean. Change the All Users documents folder (aka Shared Documents) or change My Documents for all the users.

If the second you can
1/ Right click the My Docs folder for each user - Properties - Move
2/ Type Folder Redirection in Help for the sysadmin way.

If the first type regedit in Start - Run, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
and change Common Documents.
 
I need to let all the users who log on to the system will
have the "my document" pointed to 1 folder in the other
drive.
Thank
stephen
 
i need to change the "My Documents" on the desktop to the
other drive which is not the system drive. I don't know
who will log on to the system so that i need to set all
the users who log on to the machine will automatically
have "My Documents" pointed to a folder in other drive.
And all users will be using that same folder in that drive.
Thanks
Stephen
 
why is that i can't see the Folder Redirection option
under User Configuration in the Group Policy console tree.
 
Hello Stephen,

Hope I'm on the write track here. Look at article 236621 on the MS
Knowledge Base, even thought this article pertains to Windows 2000 it also
works very well with WinXP Pro, I know I have done this successfully to my
own astonishment. The article shows how to move (even rename) the
Documements and Settings folder to another drive. Basically, by going
through the registry and finding every instance (and I mean every single
instance) of 'Documements and Settings' values and keys, and redifining its'
disk and path (or name if need be) will move the whole folder to anywhere
you want after a reboot. Every user existing and new (even the Default
User, LocalService, NetworkService users) will be placed on the (other)
defined disk. Take extreme precaution doing this (intensive surgical
procedure) will only really work (from my experience) if your XP install is
fresh and absolutely no other applications are installed after the OS
install. Then install all other apps after the registry edit....

(you said)"> And all users will be using that same folder in that drive."

Does this mean all users will have the same 'My Documents' folder? Then why
not just have one user for everyone?
Stephen, if this is the measure you need to take, I cannot stress enough the
care you need in doing this, make sure your Registry is backed up somewhere
else, and you have another Administrators' account (kept on the System disk
until success) you can use to log back into the system if XP won't let
anyone (user) past the welcome screen, which can happen doing such an
operation.

HTH Stephen.

Regards,
Winux P

PS. If you do this, like Microsoft does in this article, I disclaim
everything. Read 236621 very carefully.
 
You have to tell us how you are set up. You need Active Directory for folder redirection.

If you don't then load the default user's hive (ntuser.dat) in regedit (read help carefully), change
Personal at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserShell Folders
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

This will apply to new users created.
 
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