How to move the “My Documents” folder to another location

Posted by Vic Laurie
February 14, 2006

Many people use the “My Documents” folder to store their personal data and files. If you are storing large files or a lot of files, you may want to consider moving the folder from its default location \Documents and Settings\{current user}\My Documents to a another partition or a second hard drive. This is easy to do in Windows XP. Right-click on the “My Documents” entry in the Start menu and choose “Properties”. The dialog box that opens contains a button “Move”. Click that and then browse to the location where you want to put “My Documents”. Make sure the folder is not open before moving.

Another way to move “My Documents”, as well as a number of other special folders, is to use the Microsoft Power Toy, TweakUI, which I discussed in an earler entry.

Computer management, File management

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