Change My Documents path in PE

[DaGbyte]

Is there an easy way to change the location of My Docs in PE? What I'm getting at is I'd like to specify it during my build process - and no, I'm old school, no Bart's for me! A regedit maybe?

Anyone have any sugestions?

-DaG

[n00dles]

Probably opening up winpedef.inf and adding / modifying Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders entries would do the trick.

[DaGbyte]

I added

HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Desktop", REG_SZ, "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Default User\Desktop"

and when I built PE and booted into it, it did not substitute %SystemDrive% with X:\. Any ideas??

[rtK]

Why don't you hardcode the path? In XP registry Shell Folders paths are hardcoded.

"X:\path\to\your\desktop" should work fine.

[n00dles]

I agree with rtK - you might as well hard code it since WinPE is hardcoded to use drive X.

But to answer your question, you need to specify a REG_EXPAND_SZ value if you want to use environment variables in the value data.

Either way will work.

[Takeshi]

I added

HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders", "Desktop", REG_SZ, "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\Default User\Desktop"

and when I built PE and booted into it, it did not substitute %SystemDrive% with X:\. Any ideas??

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The desktop is not where My Docs folder is.

Why would you want to move to X anyway? It's not a real drive.

In the above subkey, the path to My Documents is under the value name Personal.