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Creating personal data/special folders



 
 
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Old May 20th 15, 05:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Default Creating personal data/special folders

Cross posted to 4 groups, as it probably applies to all these versions
of Windows. Probably applies to older ones and Windows 10, but I don't
follow those groups.

I've never used this "system" as created by MS. It simply doesn't offer
a categorization/organization method/means that makes sense to me. I
know a lot of people have no problems with this method, which is
perfectly OK.

I'm currently resurrecting a Vista system for donation, and as I was
relocating the personal data folders from the boot partition to another
partition, it suddenly occurred to me... Why can't I create my own
special folders?

I started experimenting on the Vista system, and all went well until I
relocated the folder I created. No can do. I can put the folder
somewhere else manually, but it won't show up in the personal folders area.

I'm still looking, but I found an article relating to Win 7 about doing
this, and apparently I need to create a "symbolic link" somehow, using
an elevated command windows.

I know nothing about symbolic links, so will have to start researching this.

But I was wondering if anyone knows of a GUI utility that will do all of
this for me rather than a command line operation. Ideally, it would
insert itself into the OS in some manner, rather like the Add Print
Directory fix you can get from MS.

And does anyone know of a really simple article on symbolic links that I
can start from?

It would also be nice if I could add selected folders I create, or one
of the default folders, to the Start Menu.

Thanks.


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