Relocate My Documents

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Default location of My Documents is in drive c:\ (c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents). If you usually save files in My Documents (Drive C:), you may take a risk of losing your files if your computer get infected by virus, because you need to reformat and reinstall drive C:.

Due to that above, you prefer to change default setting of My Documents folder to Drive D:
  1. Open “Windows Explorer”
  2. Create new folder in Drive D: (take for example, D:\Data)
  3. Right click My Documents and choose “Properties”
  4. Click “Target” Tab and fill the box with new folder address that you have just created (D:\Data)
  5. Click OK
  6. Next time you save files to My Documents, it will not be saved to Drive C: anymore, but in D:\Data.