Moving the "My Documents" folder in Windows

You might be asking "why would I want to do this?"  Well for one it'll save space on your hard drive that it's originally located on and second in case your Windows partition ever becomes corrupted you won't have to worry about losing all of you personal documents.  To do this follow these steps:

1. Right click My Documents and click Properties.

2. Click the Move button under the Target tab.  This will bring up a second dialog box like the one below:


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3. From that second dialog box you need select where you want the folder moved to.  Select your choice and click OK.

4. Click apply in the My Documents Properties dialog box.

Wait for your files to transfer to your new destination and your finished.  Pretty simple huh? ;)

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