My-Documents Windows 10 / 11, change the path, how to?
Of course, you can change also under MS Windows 10 or 11 the path for "My documents" and it's pretty easy to do, this solution is also for Windows 8.1 and 7!
1.) Move Personal, Download, Files, ... folders in Windows 10 or 11!
Start the MS Explorer for this and please type in the Address Bar shell:profile and confirm this press ENTER (see Figure 1).
Then select "My documents" in the Explorer. Click with the right mouse button on it and choose cut. Then insert into the desired folder with "CTRL + V"! Do not a copy action this has to be a move folder action!
Here I have created a folder with the name "D:\User1" created on Volume "D:\" and moved the folder "My documents", "My music", "My videos", "My Pictures", ... . A practical matter, if you must reinstall Windows 10, you can repeat the process and all data are back.
(Image-1) Move My-Documents on Windows 10 to another volume!
You can move folders from the profile folder of your account to other drives. For example, the Desktop or My Pictures folder requires a lot of disk space, and you can move it to another disk to increase the free space on the system disk. Here in the FAQ it explains how you can move the location of the default profile folder.
By default, the profile folders are stored on the local disk C:\ in the Users folder. They contain the following folders: Contacts; Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Music, OneDrive, Pictures, Saved Games, Search, Video, etc. It happens that some users confuse the folders and save them all in a folder and then do not know how to find files individually in the default directory!
2.) The Registry Key Entries for Personal folders on Windows 10!
The Registry Key Entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
Software\
Microsoft\
Windows\
CurrentVersion\
Explorer\
User Shell Folders
The following values are responsible for the individual folders in the registry:
AppData
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Application Data Desktop
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Desktop Personal
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My Documents My Pictures
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures Start Menu
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu Favorites
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Favorites History
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\Lokale Einstellungen\Verlauf My Music
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Music My Video
REG_EXPAND_SZ %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Video
(Image-3) change documents folder windows 11 / 10 on regedit!
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