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To: wily who wrote (4666)	7/24/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I just solved a major windows pet peeve. Disclaimer: BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE TRYING THIS. I always hated the location of the My Documents folder on C: because C: contains the OS and it is the drive that will go south when Windows does. i.e., it's not a good place to store stuff. I save all data and documents etc. to a different drive. When you use the File/Save As function in ie, it automatically opens the My Documents folder to recieve the document. If you want to put it somewhere else you end up clicking through a long stream to get there. To change where ie defaults to I went into the registry, (made a backup) and did a search for "My Documents". Everywhere it occurred I changed it to the name of the folder I really save to (Deskuments -- don't ask) and where the search yielded a path (such as C:\Windows\Desktop\My Documents) I changed it to the path of my folder (I:\Transfer\Deskuments). Now when I click File\Save in ie it puts me right where I want to be. Haven't found out if I messed anything else up as I just did this, so PAOR (Proceed At Own Risk). Now, it would really be great if you could do the same for Mail, Favorites, Cookies. w