MY DOCUMENT not wanted (W2K)

[iltiaz]

When a user open an office program and click OPEN, by default the OPEN window opens in MY DOCUMENT folder. I would like to change it and instead of MY DOCUMENT I want it to go to some drive letter like USERHOME.
Any idea. Thanks for you help.

[Dfyant]

Dependant on which versions you use and what program you are talking about, here's an example in Office 2000 for MS Word. Go to Tools->Options and then select the "File Locations" tab. Then where it says "Documents" click Modify and chose your most prefered location.
It's as easy as that!

[iltiaz]

Hi,
Applying this will only change the setting for one user. I would like this to happen for all users and all applicaiton they use on that machine.

Thanks,
Iltiaz

[Dfyant]

All I would do a run a registry file on logon as this will affect all users. If you use the following reg key and then save to your windows directory, it will run each time. Don't use the whole key located in the "Options" but just select what you need.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Wo rd\Options]
"PROGRAMDIR"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\"
"INI-PATH"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,00,00
"DOC-PATH"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Wo rd\Options\OutlookEditor]
@=""

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Then add something like this(a one off):

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run]
"Office File Location"="c:\\winnt\\office.reg"
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That's all I can think to do, other than using a VBScript which is slightly out of my realm!

Hope this helps a little.