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W i n d o w s  9 x

M y   P i c t u r e s  F o l d e r

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One thing that really annoys me about
Windows 9x with MS Office installed is
that it repeatedly insists that I store
my graphic image files in My Pictures
under My Documents, rather than on my
Art and Media partition on drive G:

Here is one way of customizing where
Windows believes your My Pictures should
be stored:


== How to do it

1.	Start | Run... (or Windows key+R)

2.	Enter regedit and click OK.

3.	The value of "My Pictures" 
	should be altered under these 
	two keys:

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

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

	It can be any folder you like.

	e.g. "G:\"


== Create a .reg file to do it

Alternatively, you could create a .reg file
that would automatically enter the 
information into the registry for you, which
will save time.

REMEMBER TO ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY
BEFORE MAKING CHANGES TO IT.

1.	Open a new text file (e.g. in 
	Notepad)

2.	Enter the following information,
	substituting 'G:\\' with the
	location of your graphic images.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"My Pictures"="G:\\"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"My Pictures"="G:\\"

3.	Make sure that your path names
	always have TWO back-slashes
	where you would normally have one.
	e.g. C:\\Media\\Pictures

4.	Save the file with a .reg suffix

5.	To merge the information into the
	registry simply double-click the
	.reg file.

Source:
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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