help]Move "my documents" folder to other Drive

[Bastian_W]

How can I move "My Documents" folder to another drive (eg. D:\) via unattended installation?

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,

[SlimShady]

You can find it here

It's a registry key you can change.

[Zhoerd]

Here it is:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]"Personal"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents"

"My Music"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents\\My Music"

"My Pictures"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents\\My Pictures"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]

"Personal"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents"

"My Pictures"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents\\My Pictures"

"My Music"="%DRIVE%\\My Documents\\My Music"

Just don't forget to put these into the default profile at the T-12 face in the Windows Installation

[boni]

I did it in winnt.sif

[GuiUnattended]

ProfilesDir="E:\Documents and Settings\"

It's just another solution

[knewman01]

I did it in winnt.sif

[GuiUnattended]ProfilesDir="E:\Documents and Settings\"

This looks very cool. Here's a hypothetical question:

Let's say the system I install is joined to a domain, and I log in as domain\kris. Would that then create e:\documents and settings\kris on first login?

If so, let's say that I then blow away the system and reinstall. I would then have to move all th documents from e:\documents and settings\kris to whatever folder is created. The SID wouldn't be the same, would it?

I already keep most of my stuff on a second drive...this would be cool if I never had to move it around

[boni]

My experience is that when a name is already in use in docs & sett, a new name will be made DOMAIN\user or CPNAme\user. So this might not be the most brilliant sollution. Another option is maybe the files and settings wizzard.

Well, this is just my second time trying at an unattended setup, so maybe someone else has a better idea