My Music folder help

[slothmeister]

Is there any way in which you can point the 'my music' and 'my pictures' etc to another directory??

At the moment it's looking for the files in My Documents but i want it to look on a seperate partition? As i have all my music and pictures on a different partition so it's a bit more organised?

Failing that, how can i go about deleting a partition and adding the space back to just the one partition, preferably without having to do a complete reinstall?

EDIT, sorry this was for XP and MCE

 

[Etaqua]

You can move your My Documents folder and its child directories onto another partition easily.

Start -> Right click My Documents -> Properties -> Target tab -> Move/type the path manually.

Edit: ah, saw your edit. I'm not sure if this works for MCE, but I know it does for XP.

 

[Trigger]

You can move your My Documents folder and its child directories onto another partition easily.

Start -> Right click My Documents -> Properties -> Target tab -> Move/type the path manually.

Edit: ah, saw your edit. I'm not sure if this works for MCE, but I know it does for XP.

Yes, but that moves the entire 'My Documents' directory. What you need to do is edit the shell folders values in the registry:

1.) Start > Run > regedit.exe > Enter

2.) HKCU > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Shell Folders

3.) Double click My Music/My Pictures and change the values

4.) Reboot

Note: You may need to disable any spyware checkers whilst doing this as they may prevent you altering the shell folders

 

[slothmeister]

great thanks very much