How to change the My Documents, Program Files location in Windows

 How to change the location of the 

My Documents  folder

 

By default the location of the my documents folder in Windows is C: drive (not alwys, usually the drive where you installed Windows)

Open the run dialog box from the start menu.

1 

Open Registry editor by typing regedit in the runn dialog box.

2 

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Shell Folders

3

Double click on the "Personal"  on the right pane to edit the location of the My Documents. Better copy paste the location from the windows explorer to avoid errors in the path names.

How to change the location of the Program Files folder

The Program Files folder is the default loocation preferred by the wondows on

installing the application softwares unless it is specified manually.

1

Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

2

Change the value of "ProgramFiles", or "ProgramFilesDir"