Shifting My Documents away from C Drive

There are various reasons why you do not want to put your "My Documents" in the default C Drive. These are the various reasons I can think of:

• Your documents are less frequently written over. Therefore, putting it in another "data partition" will reduce the risk of losing all your documents in the event of harddisk failure.
• Some applications are not created properly and by default install into C drive. This might result in harddisk space constraints. Moving the Documents folder will clear some of your harddisk space.
• Your documents are more likely to keep growing due to photos, videos, CDs, etc. Therefore, putting in a separate data partition will allow the defrag application to optimize your C Drive system files, thus increasing performance.

Just follow these steps to either change your "My Documents" location, or move it:

1. Open Windows Explorer by Winkey E
2. On the left pane, right-click on "My Documents" and click on Properties
3. Change the directory path under the Target folder location to your "data drive"
4. Click on Move if you wish to move all the documents from your present location to the new directory specified.
5. Click on OK

That's all to it.