Change The Default Location Of My Music Folder

Change The Default Location Of My Music Folder

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On Microsoft Windows computer operating systems (except for Windows NT), My Documents is the name of a special folder on the computer's hard drive that the system commonly uses to store a user's documents, music, pictures, downloads, and other files.

And you might have noticed that the media player software and iTunes use the default My Music location to store its library and music information.

How to change the default location of My Music folder? For example, if you are running out of space in your C Driver or if you want all your media files organized in a special way, you can Install a 2nd hard drive. What has to be done, if My Music folder to be moved to the new drive.

If you manually copy or move the My Music folder to the secondary hard disk or any other location, Windows XP will again create a new My Music Folder in your My Documents and  will start to store the music files there by default. Is there any way we can change this default action of Windows XP?

Unfortunately this is by design and Windows by default creates a Documents folder even if you delete it.

But you can change the default location of My Documents Folder so that your entire My Documents will be stored in a secondary hard disk along with My Music, My Pictures Etc Etc.,

And to do this, simply right click on My Documents Folder and choose properties.

Click on Move

Give The Location In Your Hard Disk for the new my Documents Folder.

Click Ok And If you get a new dialog box like the above one, give Yes so that your existing files from your old My Documents folder will be moved to your new My Documents.

If you are not interested to move the entire My Documents folder. However, if you have saved music to a different folder you can set Media Player to use a default folder to access music files.

• A. Open Media Player, Press the Alt key to bring up the File menu.
• B. Click on File, Manage Libraries and Music.

Here you can add and remove locations and also select the default location.

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Redirecting Libraries To Roaming Profile Location

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Redirecting Libraries To Roaming Profile Location

Redirecting Libraries To Roaming Profile Location

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How to change the default location of Libraries through group policy or through a logon script to point to the roaming profile location (e.g. Make the Documents Library redirect to '\\SERVERNAME\profiles\COMPANY\08\%username%\Documents' instead of 'C:\Users\%username%\Documents') and make the link in the Start Menu below the user's display picture redirect to '\\SERVERNAME\profiles\COMPANY\08\%username%'?

Solution:

Really there is no magic here, you just apply a document redirection policy. Once that policy is applied their documents would be redirected to \\SERVER\profiles\COMPANY\08\%username%\Documents

There is no changes in windows vista and windows 7 environment for this. Windows 7 works the same as vista.

Folder Redirection is one of the undiscovered gems amongst the myriad of Microsoft Group Policies. First, configure the file locations of saved files and secondly, master folder redirection, the result will be greater efficiency for both you and your users. Read more: http://www.bench3.com/2009/08/redirect-users-folders-to-common.html#ixzz0y6UJlWbX

Applies To Windows 7 And Windows Vista

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How To Bring Back The Missing My Documents Folder In Windows XP

How To Bring Back The Missing My Documents Folder In Windows XP

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When you open the My Computer screen and your Documents folder is missing but all the other users folders are there try this tweak.

• Go To START - RUN And Type REGEDIT

• Navigate To HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / Software / Microsoft / Windows / Current Version / Explorer / DocFolderPaths

[Once you click the DocFolderPaths folder you should see all the user’s folders.]

•  Add a new string value
• Value Name: your user name
• Value Data: the path to your docs folder ( ex. C:\Documents and Settings\your docs folder )

Exit Registry editor and open my computer, now you will see My Documents Folder.

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Change The Locations Of Personal Folders In Windows Vista And Windows 7

Change The Locations Of Personal Folders In Windows Vista And Windows 7

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Every user account on your system has its own home folder, stored, by default, in C:\Users. In this folder are such special user folders as Desktop, Send To, Start Menu, Documents, and Application Data, among others.

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Files placed in the Desktop folder appear as icons on the user’s desktop,shortcuts placed in the Start Menu folder appear as Start menu items, and so on. This arrangement lets each user have her own desktop, Start menu, etc.

There’s also an All Users folder, used, for example, to store icons that appear on all users’ desktops. Likewise, the Default User folder is a template of sorts, containing files and settings copied for each newly  created user. All in all, the use of these folders is pretty self-explanatory.

You can change the default locations for any user’s special folders, but the process is different for different folder types: Home folder To change the location of any user’s home folder, open the Local Users and Groups window ( lusrmgr.msc ). Open the Users category,  double-click a user, and choose the Profile tab. On more help, read How To Use Windows Start Menu.

Download TweakUI: Visit www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp to download a copy of Tweak UI. You will find the link to download the install file on the right side of the page.

Documents, Send To, etc. 

To change the location of any system folder in a user’s home folder, such as the Documents folder or the Send To folder, you must be logged in as that user. Start TweakUI, open the My Computer category branch, select Special Folders, and choose the folder to relocate from the Folder list. Note that this only changes the place that Windows looks for the associated files; you’ll have to create the folder and place the appropriate files in it yourself.

Warning: It’s remarkably easy to damage Windows Registry, but very difficult to repair. And unless you go to the trouble of making your own backup copy. So, before you continue editing your windows registry. Try to backup your registry. Read more on how to  back-up-registry-in-windows

For folders not listed in TweakUI, you’ll need to edit the Registry. Most user folders are specified in these two Registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

One of the exceptions is the Application Data folder, which is defined by the DefaultDir value in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProfileReconciliation\AppData

Note: You’ll need to log out and then log back in for any of these changes to take effect.

Program Files

The Program Files and Common Files folders (shared by all users) are both defined in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

For Program Files, you’ll need to change both the ProgramFilesDir and ProgramFilesPath values; for Common Files, just change the CommonFilesDir value. When relocating system folders, keep in mind that there can be hundreds of references to them throughout the Registry, especially Program Files and Common Files. You’ll probably need to use a program like Registry Search and Replace (available at http://www.annoyances.org) to easily get them all.

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Redirect Users Folders To A Common Directory Using Folder Re-Direction In Windows Server

Redirect Users Folders To A Common Directory Using Folder Re-Direction In Windows Server

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Folder Redirection is one of the undiscovered gems amongst the myriad of Microsoft Group Policies. First, configure the file locations of saved files and secondly, master folder redirection, the result will be greater efficiency for both you and your users.

Let us remind ourselves of where Microsoft Office programs save their files. By default, all Word and Excel files are directed to the My Documents folder. What do people do? In Word or Excel, they change the paths under Tools Menu, amend File Locations to point to their home directory. To complete the circle, the administrator must map a network drive to the user's home directory on the server. 

Perhaps now you can see what I mean by saving time? In one fell swoop, you can configure a Group Policy which redirects the My Documents to the server and forget about mapping network drives for home directories.

Folder Redirection can be achieved to the following folders.

• Application Data
• Desktop
• My Documents
• Start Menu

Application Data Group Policy - Folder Redirection

What we are configuring here is client side caching. My view is that normally, clients can adequately cache their own programs locally. This Application Data setting is different from the Folder Redirection for the 'My Documents'. Perhaps caching is one of those Group Policies that you only need for laptops. 

Ok, now let us move on to more important policies: Desktop and My Documents.

DesktopGroup Policy - Folder Redirection

There is a knack to configuring all these 4 redirection settings. At first, it seems as though there are no policies in the container. However, if you right click one of the yellow folders, for example 'Desktop' and select Properties, then a rich selection of settings comes into view.

From the first menu, select Target, now drop down the Settings box and choose: 'Advanced' - Specify Location for various user groups'. Choose 'Advanced' where you want all people to whom this policy applies to have their own desktop. In real life the 'Basic' setting may be better for the Desktop, while 'Advanced is more appropriate for the 'My Documents' folder.

If you are organized, then you would have shared out the redirect folder on the server. However even if you haven't, you can still choose the group you intend to redirect. As you share out the folder on the server, so the path changes to the famous %UserName%. Permissions permitting, the subfolders are created automatically thanks to %UserName%. 

My DocumentsFolder Redirection Settings

Whilst the 'My Documents' folder is probably the most import redirection setting, the principles are much the same as the previous folders. What I would like to concentrate on here is the Settings Tab.

Once again, in Windows Server 2003, Microsoft have thought of everything. What I particularly like is the control you have over moving the files, and there are even options for what do to if the policy is removed.

Finally, at the bottom you have decisions on what do about the My Pictures sub folder.

Start Menu

The start menu uses the same technology as the other folders. However, your strategy for the Start Menu is likely to be different from the strategy for Folder Redirection. Therefore, I suggest that for Start Menu settings that you point everyone in the group to the same folder on the Windows server. The tactic is then to fill this folder with Start Menu icons. There is no need for the %UserName% variable, instead why not give all the users in the group, the same Start Menu experience.

Where you have subfolders off the Start Menu, no worries, like well behaved children, they follow their parent folders automatically!

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