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Any Way to Change the Desktop?

Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by insanechinaman, Aug 5, 2009.

insanechinaman Notebook Evangelist

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I got an MSI GT735, and the C: drive on it is extremely small. In fact, it's the OS install drive. I tend to drag and drop all my files to the desktop however (old habit), but I can't really with this one, and it's driving me crazy that I have to navigate to the partition to drop all my files to. Right now it's on C:\Documents... blah blah until \Desktop. Is there any way to change my actual desktop to D:\Documents...\Desktop?

Also, is there any way to like.. swap the partitions? Make the OS the secondary partition so that I don't have to change the install path of every application that I install.

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There is a way. Go to C: > Users > [your username folder] > Right click the Desktop folder > Properties > Select forth tab Location > and in the box you can choose your destination. You can do that for all the UserName's folders like Movies, Pictures, Favorites etc. Easy

nklive, Aug 5, 2009

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K, I'll be sure to check it out when I get home, thanks!

insanechinaman, Aug 5, 2009

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