Windows Y2K

Do you have multiple partitions and Windows 2000?
Do you have multiple profiles on your home PC?
Are you tired of so much clicking and navigating to get to your personal folders where you save all that you create? 

If you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a profile with a designated Home Drive and and all the other complicated stuff, here's the simplest way.

Figure out what drive or folder you are saving everything to every time you do a save and list it in the registry.

Open regedit and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
User Shell Folders

Click on the User Shell Folders and on the right look for the String named "Personal" with the value of %USERPROFILE%\My Documents

Change the %USERPROFILE%\My Documents to what ever drive or folder you would like to have the Save dialog box to open to. Myself, I like it to open to J:\ and I can navigate to the proper folder from there. A lot less clicking this way and safer with multiple users on the machine if you don't want them saving into any other folder.

Note:
You can change a few other default save paths in here as well.

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Favorites

On my dual boot system, I have designated a few custom folders so that I can have both operating systems access and retain common information. My Favorites folder is in my personal files drive. I have Win98 and WinY2K saving any added favorites to J:\Favorites. This way I have access to my Favorites from both O/S and no matter what O/S I am using at the time, my Favorites are always updated in both O/S.

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