By default, the My Documents folder in Windows 7 is located in the user's directory at:
C:\Users\YourName\Documents
In the Russian version, the Users folder name appears as Users, and the Documents folder name appears as My Documents.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to change the location of the My Documents folder to something else, for example, move this folder to the D: drive, say, for security purposes or to save space on system drive. This article will show you how you can do this.
Set a new default document folder
This method is not actually a movement in the truest sense of the word, so you can immediately move on to the next subheading.
In Windows 7 there is such a thing as Libraries. There are 4 main libraries: for videos, documents, images and music. For now, we are only interested in documents, although other libraries are configured in a similar way.
By default, these libraries are displayed in the Start menu, as well as in the left pane of any folder. One library can include several folders, and you can add any folders there yourself. You can do this by right-clicking on Documents and then selecting Properties. The following window will appear in front of you: 
With button Add Folder... You can include any folder in the list, for example D:\Documents , as I did. You can then highlight the added folder in the list and click the button Set save folder to make the new folder the default Documents folder.
Please note that no files will be moved to the added folder. Thus, you only indicate to the system that you want to use this folder as the main folder for storing documents. For example, if some program requests access to My Documents, then the system will give the path to the “default folder”. Also, if you click on the Documents library in the left panel when saving a file, the file will be saved to your new folder.
If you want to move files to a new folder, you can do it manually, but it's better to use the method below.
Move the My Documents folder to a different location
To move the My Documents folder to another location, follow these steps:
After completing these steps, your old My Documents folder will disappear from its old location (that is, from the user profile folder). And the new folder in File Explorer will appear as My Documents, regardless of what it was called before.
I hope that after reading this article, you will not have any difficulties with setting the location of the My Documents folder.
Many of us use the My Documents folder to store all of our information. Unfortunately, this folder is by default located on the same drive as Windows files. Default destination folder, i.e. the actual location of the My Documents folder: C:\Documents and Settings\ username \My Documents, where C - the disk on which it is installed operating system Windows as well Username is the name of the account with which the user is logged on.
For many reasons, keeping these two directories "in the same bin" is not convenient for many users.
Here are just a few of those reasons:
Firstly, the volume of information and data that we pull onto a computer, unlike operating system files, tends to increase very quickly. What are multi-pixel photos worth! And it is not surprising that over time, we notice that previously seemingly limitless in terms of spaciousness HDD, bursting at the seams from the data bursting it.
Of course, such a disk fullness can (and will) affect Windows performance. Sooner or later, this will cause the need to delete or transfer some data, which in itself is an unpleasant procedure.
Secondly, it complicates the backup. Your data is in a state of constant change, while Windows files almost always remain in the same place where they were “left” during the installation of the operating system. This means that your data needs to be backed up much more often than Windows data.
The same arguments can be applied to disk defragmentation. Mixing user and operating system files does not improve the condition of the disk in any way. Defragmentation needs to be done more frequently and takes longer.
And finally third. When reinstalling the system, if (for some reason) you need to completely format the disk, saving the data stored on it can also take a long time.
As you can see, the neighborhood of the folder "My documents" and directories « Windows» on one disk is unnatural, and is comparable to storing bread and rat poison on the same shelf :). This is acceptable, but it is difficult to call it a wonderful idea.
The ideal option may be the case when Windows is installed on one, and the documents are stored on another disk of the computer (it does not matter - physical or virtual).
Is it possible to do so? Of course!
First, make sure the drive (or partition) has enough space to store all of your data. Go to « My computer» and right clicking on the folder "My documents" select « Properties». There will be indicated the volume occupied by these documents on the disk.
Create a folder on it, for example, My Documents-here we will then move our folder"My documents"
Change the default location of the My Documents folder
To change the default location of a folder "My documents"
- Click the button Start and highlight the item My documents.
- My documents and select command Properties(If the menu "Start" icons My documents If you don't find it, then do it with an icon on your desktop).
In the window that opens, on the tab Destination folder we can see that the folder My documents actually located on the disk FROM, namely in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\Your Account\My Documents:
Perform one of the following procedures.
- In field Folder enter the path to the new folder location and click the button OK. For example, enter D:\My Documents
If such a folder does not exist (you did not create it beforehand), a dialog box will appear. Create a folder. Click the button Yes to create a folder, and then click OK.
-or-
- In the tab Destination folder(1) press the button Move(2), select on Local drive D: (3) document storage folder My Documents (4), and then click the button OK in both windows.
- If you want to create a new folder, click the button Create folder(5). Enter folder name:
And then press the button OK in both windows: first click on the selected folder where they will be transferred My documents and then press the key OK.
We return to the window Properties: My Documents and on the tab Destination folder click on the button OK.
- In the dialog box Move Documents Windows will want to make sure - do we really want to transfer personal data to this folder?: Click the button Yes Not
- Moving information from one drive to another can take some time.
- But after that, you can get into a new folder "My documents" through the appropriate icon on the desktop or from any other place (application) of Windows.
Just in case:
Restoring the default location of the My Documents folder
To restore the default location of a folder "My documents", do the following.
- Click the button Start and highlight the item My documents.
- Right click item My documents and select command Properties.
- Click the button Default, and then the button OK.
- In the dialog box Move Documents press the button Yes to move documents to a new location, or the button Not to leave the documents in their original location.
Prevent the user from changing the location of a folder"My documents"
If you don't want the user to be able to move and rename the My Documents folder in File Explorer and My Computer, then create a parameter like DWORD DisablePersonalDirChange with meaning 1
in section
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (do not confuse the My Documents folder with the My Documents ActiveX control
). Now, when you try to rename or move a folder, a corresponding message will be displayed
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It often happens that you need to move a file or folder to another location on your computer. This happens even more often when you need to free up space on a flash drive or, conversely, free up space on your computer by transferring some of the files to external drive. At moving a file or folder it is important to understand that the file will be first copied to a new location(if it's another) disk, and then removed where he used to be. Those. there is no copy of the file, as when copying.
Let's look at three ways that will lead to the same result: moving a file or folder. (Shortcuts are moved in the same way as files and folders. The mechanics are the same in all cases: you need to specify which object to move where.)
As an example, consider how to move a file to a folder nearby. In fact, there is no difference what to move (a group of files, folders) and where to move (to another folder, to another drive, to external media or from external media). So, we have a file and a folder:
Method 1 (using the mouse and context menu) and Method 2 (using the mouse and hotkeys)
These two methods are the same in principle, you can do the same thing either with the mouse and context menu, or with the help of the mouse and hot keys - as you like.
Method 1:
- right click on the file icon
- from the context menu, select the item " Cut»
Method 2:
- select the file with the left mouse button
- press on the keyboard " ctrl+x»
After that, the icon of the file (or folder) will become dim. This means that the object is ready to be moved:
After that, you need to choose where we will move the file and move it:
Method 1
- select the folder to which we will move the selected object and right-click on it
- from the context menu, select the item " Insert»
Method 2
- select the folder to which we will move the selected object, go into it
- when we get to the right place, press on the keyboard " ctrl+v»
After that, the selected object will be moved from the place where it was to the place that we have chosen and explicitly indicated:
Method 3: Drag and Drop.
This is perhaps the easiest way to move a file or folder in Windows. You need to click on the object, without releasing it, drag it to the right place. After the place is under the mouse cursor (highlighted, highlighted), release the mouse button. The object will then move.
When dragging a file within one drive to another, there are no problems. However, if you drag and drop from one disk to another, the objects will be copied (and then they will need to be deleted from the old place).
To avoid this, while dragging, hold down the " Shift" on keyboard. Then the movement will take place in one stage. :)
Every computer owner at least once faced with the need to move a file to a folder or extract a folder from an archive. Sometimes a password set a long time ago is forgotten, and it seems that the files are lost forever. Or even a folder, a basket may suddenly disappear from the desktop or be deleted by mistake. But all this can be easily fixed!
How to move a file to a folder? It is very easy to do this. First you need to find in Documents the file that needs to be moved. Then, in a new window, open the folder where the file will be moved. Now you need to left-click on the file and, without releasing the button, drag it into the folder window. Move the image of the file following the cursor over the folder and release the button.
Sometimes you have to change your profile folder or add a new user. Let's see how to change the user folder. To get started, open the Control Panel from the Start menu. Next, you need to find the item " Accounts users" and already there it will be possible to change any parameters of the user folder.
Let's say a password was set on a folder, then the system crashed, and now the folder is denied access. In this case, it will be useful to know how to hack the folder. When you turn on your computer, you must select " Safe mode" downloads. Next, by right-clicking on the desired folder, open its properties and change the access and security settings, specifying yourself as the owner of the folder. If this does not solve the problem, you can find on the Internet special programs to help you open a locked folder.
Often, for the convenience of storing and moving materials, they use special archiving programs that help reduce the weight of files. The question arises: how to extract a folder from an archive? First you need to open the archive - double-click on it with the left mouse button. When the archive window opens, the desired folder will appear in the file list. When you right-click on it in the menu that appears, there will be an item "extract to the specified folder". It remains only to choose where to extract the desired folder - after the extraction process, it will be in the specified location.
Finally, we will tell you how to restore the folder, the trash can be deleted from the desktop by mistake. To restore, you need to right-click on the desktop, select "personalize", and then, in the window that appears, "change desktop icons". In the parameters you need to check the box next to the basket. It will reappear on your desktop!
There is nothing difficult in working with a computer at the user level, and all problems that arise can be easily and quickly solved. The main thing is not to get lost and not to panic. If you encounter difficulties that are not mentioned in this article, you can always find useful information in the Internet.
If you have an operating system installed on one local drive, and you store all data on another local drive (as is usually done correctly), I think you sometimes had questions about how to transfer some necessary folders to another local drive.
This is usually done in two cases:
1)
When there is not enough space on the disk with "Windows" and you constantly need to move something from folders to another disk.
2)
In the event that "Windows has flown" everything that was on them will be deleted from you. Because when reinstalling, either everything is overwritten or formatted.
So, I'll show you how you can move your Favorites, Downloads, Pictures, Videos, Documents, Music, and Desktop folders in Windows 7 and 8.
First of all, we create a separate folder on the local drive where you do not have Windows installed.
It is necessary to create a new one and rename it so that later it is not accidentally deleted or confused for what it is. Though "Folders of Windows" write.
In it, we create more folders. For downloads, desktop music, documents, etc.
I have this path C:\Users\1
We see such a cluster of folders there:
Now we click on the RMB you need (for example, Desktop) and select Properties and then tab Location
I did not accidentally highlight the button Move. Click on it and select the created folder on another drive where you want to save
Click Apply agree to the warning
We are waiting for everything to move, then we press OK in this window and you're done.
Now we do the same actions with other necessary folders ( My videos, My documents, My music, Images etc.)
There is also an alternative way - through.
Go to branch
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
And look what we have:
Here are all the folders and paths to them, you only need to know a little English in order to translate Personal- My documents, My Music- My music, Favorites- Favorites, etc.
Next, you need to click 2 times on the parameter and change Meaning to the path to the folder you created.
Of course this method suitable for more advanced users.
After all these manipulations, you will free up space on the system disk and all subsequent actions will be carried out on another disk.
