help moving All Users shared folders

I am new to WindowsXP (haveXP ProSP2) and want to have my data drive be the location for my data. I successly have my documents located there (XP placed it: E:\Documents and Settings\Sandy\My Documents\) not exactly what I wanted, but that's okay.
Now, I really want to do the same with the All users shared folders like \My Music\ and \My Photos\ (I have a lot of music and photos and do not want it to fill up my C drive with them) I want to do this right, so that the data is really physically on my E drive and that place is the same "shared place" visible from my desktop Win2K machine.
Thanks in advance
Sandy

 

The easy way to do that is to download TweakUI for XP:

Microsoft Powertoys for XP

Then you'll find what you want to move in the My Computer>Special Folders section.

 

Thanks a lot! I reall loved powertoys, I am glad to know they've updated them for XP! I suppose they are still "unsupported tweaks?"
Is there a good/bad reason to use the file structure that XP likes for these items x:\Documents and Settings\username\my documents\etc??

 

Yes, they are still unsupported I'm afraid. I mostly keep all my stuff on other partitions rather than in Docs and Settings, and it's never caused me any problems. Indeed, it means that if I need to go back to an earlier Ghost image, or even do a clean install, I don't need to worry about my data. Not that that should be used as an excuse not to back the data up properly, of course.

 

Well, I got the TweakUI, I forgot how many things you can do with that! I found the special folders location. Now here is where it doesn't actually work. I change the location ( the allusers: mymusic, photos, videos, documents) to my prefered drive. Tweak accepts the changes, but then it doesn't really change. I did it 3 differnt times and rebooted too.
Do you think it is because those are also shared folders? Or could it be an XP-SP2 issue?
I did find some info at Kelly'sKorner about manually changing the registry keys to reassign the default location. But will that ruin the "shared functionality" and the special things that come with the photos folder?

 

It's a long time since this, so forgive me if I'm a little rusty. If memory serves all that TweakUI does is to alter the paths in the Registry, you actually have to manually create folders and then move any existing files to the new locations. And the original folders will still be left in their old locations, though Windows won't write any more files there after you've used TweakUI.