Specifications

Moving User Folders

Reading pane. For example, when you display a video file in the Reading pane,

Windows Explorer includes playback controls such as Play, Pause, and Stop.

. Use Check Boxes to Select Items—Activate this check box to add check boxes beside

each folder and file. You can then select objects by activating their check boxes.

. Use Sharing Wizard—When this check box is activated, Windows 7 uses a simpli-

fied file and folder sharing method called the Sharing Wizard. Power users will want

to disable the Sharing Wizard (see Chapter 26, “Accessing and Using Your Network”).

. See “Deactivating the Sharing Wizard,” p. 410.

. When Typing into List View—These options determine Windows Explorer’s behav-

ior when you open a folder and begin typing:

Automatically Type into the Search Box—Activate this option to have your typing

appear in the Search box.

Select the Typed Item in the View—Activate this option to jump to the first item

in the folder with a name that begins with the letter you type.

Moving User Folders

By default, all your user folders are subfolders of the %USERPROFILE% folder, which is

usually the following (where

User is your username):

C:\Users\User

This is not a great location because it means that your documents and Windows 7 are on

the same hard disk partition. If you have to wipe that partition to reinstall Windows 7 or

some other operating system, you’ll need to back up your documents first. Similarly, you

might have another partition on your system that has lots of free disk space, so you might

prefer to store your documents there. For these and other reasons, moving the location of

your user folder is a good idea. Here’s how:

1. Create the folder in which you want your user folder to reside.

2. Click Start, type

c:\users\ (replace c with the letter of the drive where your version

of Windows 7 is installed), and then click your username in the search results.

Windows 7 displays your user profile folders.

3. Right-click the user folder you want to move, and then click Properties. The folder’s

property sheet appears.

4. In the Location tab, use the text box to enter the full path (drive and folder name)

of the folder you created in step 1. (Or click Move to select the folder using a

dialog box.)

5. Click OK. If Windows Explorer asks whether you want to create the new folder and

then to move your documents to the new location, click Yes in both cases.