Windows 7 Changing the location of the desktop on the file system

imilender · Nov 24, 2009

Hi everyone,

Can someone help me. Under Vista I had setup user folders into e: -drive and kept the c: -drive just for OS and stuff. i.e. my desktops were also stored at e:/users/<userx>/desktop. This setup just didn't seem to work well and now after upgrading the Windows 7 I would want to put all the stuff back under c:/users/<userx>/. I have managed to move everything else expect for the desktop. There is no location tab under the desktop that would allow it to be moved.

How can I relocate the desktop bck to the c: drive?

Thanks!

Iikka

imilender · Nov 25, 2009

Got it, the setting was actually in two places:

HKEY Current user -> software -> microsoft -> windows -> explorer and there shell folders and user shell folders. changed both and that solved it.

Thanks!

imilender · Nov 24, 2009

Thanks for the reply. I found the settings for the common desktop there, but I have two user accounts setup on the machine and could not find the path for the individual users desktop? Where might one find that?

Thanks!

imilender · Nov 25, 2009

Got it, the setting was actually in two places:

HKEY Current user -> software -> microsoft -> windows -> explorer and there shell folders and user shell folders. changed both and that solved it.

Thanks!

reghakr · Nov 25, 2009

You have to make many,. many charges in the registry,. really not worth it.

On my F: drive,. I just created a Users folder,. then copied the contents of the Users file folder on the desktop to that location.

But your setting are still going to go the the normal location.

I just store Pictures,. music and videos on the F: drive.

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