Is there a way to change the default location for My Documents to reside on another partition?

I want to change the default location to my documents for new profiles to be D:\%UserName%\My Documents.

I have tried changing

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]

and

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]

But they dont support variables (namely the %username%-variable) so I'm still lost to how to attack this.

The idea is to create different folders for my documents on the D-drive for automatic synchronization via Allway Sync later on.

You don't use those registry branches, try changing them to User Shell Folders instead and then ensure that the key data is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.

So I should change and mofify both those places, but the User Shell Folders instead?

At what time would I apply these settings? Just before I copy the user profile to Default User?

Is the attached reg-file correct? (ignore the localised words of course)

Maybe its just late, maybe I'm stupid - I was sure this would be a walk in the park to figure out but I was so wrong

edit: and yeah, the reg keys are REG_EXPAND_SZ according to regedit

edit2: Thanks to my curiosity and the fact that I had never heard that REG_EXPAND_SZ had any specific meaning I googled it and found this:

http://helpnet.macrovision.com/robo/projec...istryExpand.htm

Thanks to that I now know that the previously posted reg-file is incorrect!

But I didn't quite understand how I would input the correct variables in the reg-file, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to edit it to?

The exported result of registry entries with variables just give me hex-output

Is there a way to input it in clear-text or do I have to export the correct entries in hex / use REG.EXE to import it?

mydocuments.reg

Edited March 7, 200818 yr by Ralin