Need help with Vista and "My Documents"

I upgraded my win XP to Vista. I had two partitions C and D on my XPs before. C was 30 GB and I had ‘windows’ and ‘program files’ on it. I used D for ‘My Documents’ and it was about 160 GB.

After I ‘clean installed’ Vista on my computer the vista installed itself on C and put everything that used to be on C in ‘Windows.old’ folder and left D exactly as it was.

So far so good... I have everything I need on my computer and can erase everything that was on it before and don’t need anymore.

The only thing I don’t like is that now also the new ‘My Documents’ (now they are named by the user – Mike - and contain folders like pictures, documents, downloads, ...) are on my C partition! But I would like it to be on D, so that my personal files and folders don’t use the space that is meant for programs. Yes, I can store everything on D if I want to, but I don’t like, that every time I want to save something, download it, ... windows initially offers me to save it in ‘Mike’. It gets quite annoying if you have to go to computer > d: > my documents > ... every time you want to save/open something.

How can I move my ‘Mike’ to D? I suppose If I just pick it and move it to D windows would not register that the user folder was moved and would have problems trying to access ‘Mike’ on C?

Any tip would be appreciated.... Thanks!

 

right click on "Documents" in "Mike" and choose "Properties", under the "Location" tab change the location to where your documents are in D.

 

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=215

 

Thanks!

A tried this, but this would only move my documents folder not the whole users folder to a new location.

I found this in some other forum. I have jet to try it but it looks like it could work. There were some positive responses from other user too.

http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/change-user-profile-folder-location-in-vista/

It’s more complicated but if it forks I’m ok with it...