Target Tab missing

[Guest pajudd]

I would like to change the location of the My Documents folder to a

non-system partition (obviously!)

However, there is no Target Tab in the (right click) properties for any of

my folders.

How can I turn Target back on?

(Or some other way of moving My Documents?)

Thank you,

Peter

[Guest pajudd]

RE: Target Tab missing

 

Sorry, forgot to add that I have checked the following and found no such reg

value.

Peter

 

This happens if the DisablePersonalDirChange policy setting exists. For

stand-alone systems, to get back the missing buttons, open Regedit and

navigate to:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \

Policies \ Explorer

 

In the right-pane, delete the DisablePersonalDirChange value.

 

 

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"pajudd" wrote:

> I would like to change the location of the My Documents folder to a

> non-system partition (obviously!)

> However, there is no Target Tab in the (right click) properties for any of

> my folders.

> How can I turn Target back on?

> (Or some other way of moving My Documents?)

> Thank you,

> Peter

[Guest Malke]

Re: Target Tab missing

 

pajudd wrote:

> I would like to change the location of the My Documents folder to a

> non-system partition (obviously!)

> However, there is no Target Tab in the (right click) properties for any of

> my folders.

> How can I turn Target back on?

> (Or some other way of moving My Documents?)

> Thank you,

> Peter

 

Easiest way: Control Panel>Display>Desktop>Customize button. Put the My

Documents folder on your Desktop (I also like to have My Computer there).

Now right-click on that My Documents folder and choose Properties. You will

now see where you can Move it.

 

Malke

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[Guest pajudd]

Re: Target Tab missing

 

Malke,

Well aren't you a wondrous addition to the universe!

 

Perhaps you could also speculate why the evil MS Empire conspired in the

first place to put Docs and Sys stuff on the same partition? This concept

has greatly increased my computer tutoring income by chasing clients lost

files and mangled systems. You see they found backups daunting (ie.e didn't

do them) mostly because of said glaring error.

 

Thanks a heap.

Peter

[Guest Malke]

Re: Target Tab missing

 

pajudd wrote:

> Malke,

> Well aren't you a wondrous addition to the universe!

>

> Perhaps you could also speculate why the evil MS Empire conspired in the

> first place to put Docs and Sys stuff on the same partition? This concept

> has greatly increased my computer tutoring income by chasing clients lost

> files and mangled systems. You see they found backups daunting (ie.e

> didn't do them) mostly because of said glaring error.

 

I can't tell from your post whether my advice helped and solved your issue

or you're just being sarcastic. I hope the former.

 

As for your other questions, I can't possibly answer why Microsoft designed

their software the way they did. If you consider the company evil, use

something else. OS X puts data on the same partition as the operating

system by default (although you can certainly change it). I'm very happy

with my Mac but of course it isn't Open Source. Most Linux distros

put /home in a separate partition; if the distro you're interested in

doesn't do this by default you can always mount /home where you want it.

 

Malke

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