"Stan Hilliard" <usenetreplyMS@samplingplansNOTSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> My S: drive is getting full but I have plenty of room on H:
> How can I move My Videos folder to H? I want the new location to stay
> the default folder for Miro, Realplayer, WindowsMediaPlayer.
>
> It is currently under Documents and Settings\myname\mydocuments\
> I don't care if the files go outside of my identity area.
You can change the location of the folder in TweakUI, but some crap programs
may have the default location hard-wired into them. I have My Docs, Music,
Videos, Pictures and Desktop all moved to different locations and
partitions, and find that there are a few programs that still write to the
default positions.
So I have stopped using TweakUI to change the positions, and I moved the
default folder to the new positions, and make Junction Points in the
original locations, pointing to the new locations. You have to use the
LINKD command in the Resource Kit to make Junction Points in XP, whereas the
MKLINK command is standard in Vista.
You could also use NTFS Mount Points in Disk Management, but the new
location would have to be a full partition, which is what I used to do for
My Documents, before I learnt about making Junction Points manually, when I
started using Vista, which is more flexible.
ss.