Wednesday, August 18, 2010

How to change target location for my Documents

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

• Click on ‘ Personal’ value in User Shell Folders, change the value data to %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%(This will be the location wherever you want to point your my documents to). Also, apply the same change in Shell Folders.

•If user has pictures stored under home drive server also, then ensure to change My picture value to %HOMESHARE%%HOMEPATH%\my pictures in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
AND
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

•Once these have been all done, get user log off and log back in again, the target location of My Document should be corrected.

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