Wednesday, January 05, 2011

HOWTO : change the location of Desktop folder at Windwos 7

If like me you would also like to change the location of your Desktop folder(security reasons or willing to share the same Desktop on all of your computers), keep reading.


The solution is pretty simple :-) Simply go to following path : 
C:/users/name/Desktop
Then right click on the Desktop folder and then choose properties. After it click on "Location tab" and there you can change the location of the Desktop folder.


in XP, it is the same story but a little bit more complicated as you should go to registery(Start->Run->regedit) and change the value of this entry in registry : 


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

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