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My Documents Location - 12/13/2004 1:50:28 AM

Tr0jan

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Is there a way (exept registry) to change the location of my documents automatically using VB script? Ive tried changing it under the current user in the registry, but to no avail, it doesn't apply the changes, even after a restart.

I can read the location of the my documents using WMI but dont know how to write to it. (if possible)

Thanks in advance

TR

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 2:58:13 AM

hbomb

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yes you can. send me an email at rhinton@chestnut.org and I will send you the script.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 3:40:11 AM

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would like to see code too..

any possibility to post it on this forum?

bushmen

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 3:49:43 AM

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http://www.pbdr.com/ostips/cmydocs.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q242557/

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 4:05:11 AM

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Set objShell = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
objUser = objNetwork.UserName

objShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal", "x:\NEW PATH\" & objUser & "\My Documents", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 1:53:32 PM

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I don't think there are other ways of changing the my documents location except in the registry. I don't understand why you would want to programatically change its location though. Will you be changing it on a regular basis ? Do you intend to use the scripts to modify the default location for domain users ? If so, you might want to consider using GPO. Above all else, it does work when the registry entry is modified; however, you might have to change a user's entry other than the one you currently log on with if you decide to do it manually through the registry.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 2:47:17 PM

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Agree if forcing domain wide just use GPO. Only reason I could think of changing mydocuments location is if you were not using roaming profiles and wanted to change it to save on a share folder on network for backup.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/23/2005 3:02:06 PM

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Yup, totally. The confusion I had is this: " Is there a way (exept registry) to change the location of my documents automatically using VB script?". I use scripts to perform tasks that I need to have on a regular basis. I'm puzzled by the fact that I would want to change the location of my documents folder "regularly". But that's just me

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/24/2005 12:43:32 AM

esnmb

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I had to work on a project where my manager for some reason didn't want to use GPO's, so I did some research and all I could find for changing the location is my modifying the registry.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/24/2005 2:12:28 AM

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so he can not use the registry, and not gpo..

am i right in saying, we're back to square one!

bushmen

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/24/2005 2:33:34 AM

esnmb

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Seems that way. :\

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/24/2005 2:55:46 AM

token

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I believe the registry is the only way, even GPO itself does the same thing.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/25/2005 7:46:15 PM

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Just curious, why change the location with a script or even in the registry?

You can change the location by just right clicking your my document, click properties and select move.

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/25/2005 9:49:13 PM

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'Code by MSDN
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'The following are Environmentstrings (Plus examples):
'
'ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
'APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data
'CLIENTNAME=Console
'CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
'COMPUTERNAME=<UserDOM>
'ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
'FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
'HOMEDRIVE=C:
'HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\<user>
'LOGONSERVER=\\<UserDOM>
'NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
'OS=Windows_NT
'Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\UltraEdit
'PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
'PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
'PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD
'PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
'PROCESSOR_REVISION=0801
'ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
'PROMPT=$P$G
'SESSIONNAME=Console
'SystemDrive=C:
'SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
'TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\<user>\LOCALS~1\Temp
'TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\<user>\LOCALS~1\Temp
'USERDOMAIN=<UserDOM>
'USERNAME=<user>
'USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\<user>
'windir=C:\WINDOWS

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WScript.Echo "WinDir is " & WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WinDir%")

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Re: My Documents Location - 2/26/2005 7:49:12 AM

token

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quote:
Originally posted by kracksmith

Just curious, why change the location with a script or even in the registry?

You can change the location by just right clicking your my document, click properties and select move.

heh.. good point. However, I don't use that 'folder' anyway, I didn't even realize you can do that :)

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RE: Re: My Documents Location - 7/13/2006 1:28:17 AM

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I'm also looking for a script solution that changes the 'My Documents' target and here's why...

#1 We have GPO's that lock everything down on the desktop.
#2 When you do a manual change it asks to move the data from the users current location to the new location in an uncontrolled method that I can't report on.
#3 and most importantly I want control the process to cut down on the number of helpdesk calls.

I'm not really a VB person, but I am a programmer. I'm using a programming lang. called Winbatch to do the copying, verifying, reporting and reg calls, but I quickly found out that the My Documents target is an OLE object that won't refresh with a simple reg change and I don't really want to kill the explorer process. I looked around and found this on Hey Scripting Guy....
.............................................
Const MY_DOCUMENTS = &H5&
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(MY_DOCUMENTS)
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self
Wscript.Echo objFolderItem.Path
..............................................

It does display the current My Documents target, but not being a VB person I can't figure out how to push the new location back to objFolderItem.Path. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in Advance!

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RE: My Documents Location - 7/13/2006 12:10:19 PM

dm_4ever

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when changing "my documents" location in the registry there are two keys with a "personal" string that can be modified. for some reason sometimes changing one and not the other works, in some cases i've found i need to change it in both.

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal

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RE: My Documents Location - 7/13/2006 11:56:16 PM

mbouchard

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Why not change it via GPO? At the least, why not import the reg key using GPO?

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