Move My documents only

[Mekrel]

I know in winnt.sif you can put

ProfileDir="Path" or something like that, so you get documents and settings on say F:\drive.

but this means that the desktop is also stored on F and will have to format F each time i go to format the system. I know you can move the my documents folder in windows by going to start and right clicking the my documents icon and going into properties.

so is there a way to do this unattended. So I can just move the my documents folder. this would be a great help

Many thanks

[Yzöwl]

This has been answered on many occasions

Put this redirect.inf with Cmdlines.txt in $OEM$

[Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=Reg.Settings

[Reg.Settings]
HKCU,"%SMWCvEUSF%",Personal,0x20000,"%PERSONAL%"
HKCU,"%SMWCvEUSF%","My Pictures",0x20000,"%PICTURES%"
HKCU,"%SMWCvEUSF%",Favorites,0x20000,"%FAVORITES%"
HKCU,"%SMWCvEUSF%","My Music",0x20000,"%MUSIC%"

[Strings]
SMWCvEUSF = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"
PERSONAL = "F:\%USERNAME%\My Documents"
PICTURES = "F:\%USERNAME%\My Documents\My Pictures"
FAVORITES = "F:\%USERNAME%\Favorites"
MUSIC = "F:\%USERNAME%\My Documents\My Music"

And call it with this line in your Cmdlines.txt

[Commands]
"rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 .\redirect.inf"

Just change the drive location in the four strings at the bottom of the file.

If you decide not to attribute the %USERNAME% variable to the strings, you should also change the 0x20000 to 0 in all the [Reg.Settings] keys