Moving Favorites folder away from C:

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Hi NoSpan, Alan Edwards, et al,
After several reboots my Favorites folder returned back to my C: drive!
Could there another Registry key to tweak? Below are the original instruction of NoSpam
news:Xns99FFDD8F1929Dnspauac@207.46.248.16... and I did it manually with regedit command.
Please help me one more time -- I don't want to lost all my saved URL when calamity come.
TIA. --Rino

Merge in the .reg file below
Change "D:\\Favorites" to match where you want them,
and move your current favorites to that place.
Note the doubling of the backslashes in the path specifications
(watch out for wrapping
- the [ and ] are at the beginning and end of one line)

--------------------------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\Shell Folders]
"Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\User Shell Folders]
"Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"

--------------------------------------------------------------
 
Why go through all that - TweakUI will move it.

"< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
news:ulZUdilSIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi NoSpan, Alan Edwards, et al,
> After several reboots my Favorites folder returned back to my C: drive!
> Could there another Registry key to tweak? Below are the original
> instruction of NoSpam
> news:Xns99FFDD8F1929Dnspauac@207.46.248.16... and I did it manually with
> regedit command.
> Please help me one more time -- I don't want to lost all my saved URL when
> calamity come.
> TIA. --Rino
>
> Merge in the .reg file below
> Change "D:\\Favorites" to match where you want them,
> and move your current favorites to that place.
> Note the doubling of the backslashes in the path specifications
> (watch out for wrapping
> - the [ and ] are at the beginning and end of one line)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> \Shell Folders]
> "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> \User Shell Folders]
> "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
 
How?
I cannot find it in my TweakUI -- can you PLEASE show me the way by using
this method: "click xx > choose xx > ", etc. ?

Thanks for replying my thread - Jerry!
--Rino

"Jerry" <ChiefZekeNoSpam@MSN.com> wrote in message news:#LWVyOmSIHA.6036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Why go through all that - TweakUI will move it.
>
> "< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
> news:ulZUdilSIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > Hi NoSpan, Alan Edwards, et al,
> > After several reboots my Favorites folder returned back to my C: drive!
> > Could there another Registry key to tweak? Below are the original
> > instruction of NoSpam
> > news:Xns99FFDD8F1929Dnspauac@207.46.248.16... and I did it manually with
> > regedit command.
> > Please help me one more time -- I don't want to lost all my saved URL when
> > calamity come.
> > TIA. --Rino
> >
> > Merge in the .reg file below
> > Change "D:\\Favorites" to match where you want them,
> > and move your current favorites to that place.
> > Note the doubling of the backslashes in the path specifications
> > (watch out for wrapping
> > - the [ and ] are at the beginning and end of one line)
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > REGEDIT4
> >
> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> > \Shell Folders]
> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
> >
> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> > \User Shell Folders]
> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>
>
 
Hi Rino,

With Tweak UI, navigate to "My Computer">"Special Folders", and on the
right-side you can change the location of your folder.

--
HTH,

Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://dundats.proboards27.com/index.cgi
http://www.aumha.org/


"< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
news:u4%23VaimSIHA.4128@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> How?
> I cannot find it in my TweakUI -- can you PLEASE show me the way by using
> this method: "click xx > choose xx > ", etc. ?
>
> Thanks for replying my thread - Jerry!
> --Rino
>
> "Jerry" <ChiefZekeNoSpam@MSN.com> wrote in message
> news:#LWVyOmSIHA.6036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Why go through all that - TweakUI will move it.
>>
>> "< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
>> news:ulZUdilSIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> > Hi NoSpan, Alan Edwards, et al,
>> > After several reboots my Favorites folder returned back to my C: drive!
>> > Could there another Registry key to tweak? Below are the original
>> > instruction of NoSpam
>> > news:Xns99FFDD8F1929Dnspauac@207.46.248.16... and I did it manually
>> > with
>> > regedit command.
>> > Please help me one more time -- I don't want to lost all my saved URL
>> > when
>> > calamity come.
>> > TIA. --Rino
>> >
>> > Merge in the .reg file below
>> > Change "D:\\Favorites" to match where you want them,
>> > and move your current favorites to that place.
>> > Note the doubling of the backslashes in the path specifications
>> > (watch out for wrapping
>> > - the [ and ] are at the beginning and end of one line)
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------
>> > REGEDIT4
>> >
>> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
>> > \Shell Folders]
>> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
>> >
>> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
>> > \User Shell Folders]
>> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
 
Actually, when I completed my navigation I've to click the small down arrow head
and located Favorites as the #4th choices down > Apply > click OK to exit. I started
Moving my Favorites folder to my D: drive location again as it cannot be deleted because
Windows refused it to be Deleted. Check and reboots and doubled checks from IE to WE
and finally found that it really works!

Awesome, Thank you so much for the help! Curt Christianson - you're very kind and helpful.
Easy to do, don't think I would have figure this out without your help. YES, this is the easy
way and I loved it ;o)

--Rino

"Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:u8YXzboSIHA.3532@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Rino,
>
> With Tweak UI, navigate to "My Computer">"Special Folders", and on the
> right-side you can change the location of your folder.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Curt
>
> http://dundats.mvps.org/
> http://dundats.proboards27.com/index.cgi
> http://www.aumha.org/
>
>
> "< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
> news:u4%23VaimSIHA.4128@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > How?
> > I cannot find it in my TweakUI -- can you PLEASE show me the way by using
> > this method: "click xx > choose xx > ", etc. ?
> >
> > Thanks for replying my thread - Jerry!
> > --Rino
> >
> > "Jerry" <ChiefZekeNoSpam@MSN.com> wrote in message
> > news:#LWVyOmSIHA.6036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >> Why go through all that - TweakUI will move it.
> >>
> >> "< < Rino > >" <noemail@email.com> wrote in message
> >> news:ulZUdilSIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> > Hi NoSpan, Alan Edwards, et al,
> >> > After several reboots my Favorites folder returned back to my C: drive!
> >> > Could there another Registry key to tweak? Below are the original
> >> > instruction of NoSpam
> >> > news:Xns99FFDD8F1929Dnspauac@207.46.248.16... and I did it manually
> >> > with
> >> > regedit command.
> >> > Please help me one more time -- I don't want to lost all my saved URL
> >> > when
> >> > calamity come.
> >> > TIA. --Rino
> >> >
> >> > Merge in the .reg file below
> >> > Change "D:\\Favorites" to match where you want them,
> >> > and move your current favorites to that place.
> >> > Note the doubling of the backslashes in the path specifications
> >> > (watch out for wrapping
> >> > - the [ and ] are at the beginning and end of one line)
> >> >
> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > REGEDIT4
> >> >
> >> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> >> > \Shell Folders]
> >> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
> >> >
> >> > [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> >> > \User Shell Folders]
> >> > "Favorites"="D:\\Favorites"
> >> >
> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
 
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