Have you ever thought about what will happen to your valuable files you store in the My Documents folder in case of an OS crash??? There are chances that you lose them pretty quickly...

It is always better to save your files; especially important ones, in a location which is different from the partition where your Windows is installed. It is easy to do.. There are two ways of doing that... One a very simple method, the other a registry edit..

I shall describe to you about the easiest one...

Suppose your Windows is installed in your C drive and you want your My Documents to be shifted to a folder in D drive... Lets give the folder a name... "DocDuplicate" (this can be any thing you like...)

1. Right click My Documents icon in the desktop and click Properties..



2. Now in the Target tab, type the location of the folder you want the My Documents should be targetted to... In this case "D:\DocDuplicate".

3. Click on the Move button.

4. In the Move Documents box click Yes to move your files to your new folder...

You have now done it....

Now to restore it, you can again right click My Documents and then Properties; and on the target tab, click on Restore Default...

In the Move Documents box, again click on Yes...

You have now reverted it ....

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