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245352 2004-06-17 03:09:00 Hiya,
When I use outlook to attach a file to an e-mail, a window comes up with 4 brown buttons on the left.... (History, My Docs, Desktop and Faves)

Any idea how I can change the location of the My Documents button link as I use a different drive for general documents and would really love it if I could modify that button to point somewhere else.
I've found options to change this (where it opens to save files) in word and excel under tools -> options -> general but I'm trying to make this easy for my parents and can't figure this one out. Please help :)

(I use winxp if you need to know that...)

Thanks for your help :)

Cheers,
Red.
Red_Eye (5774)
245353 2004-06-17 03:42:00 Do you mean where my documents opens in? if you do try this
go /start and right click my documents and select properties and change the target to wherever you want it to open in ie C:\downloads then click apply then o.k . when you select open with it will still say my documents but it is opening in the downlods folder .
hth
johnboy (217)
245354 2004-06-17 04:50:00 I am not sure about Outlook but with other dialogue boxes you can do some rather neat tweaks to suit your preferences .

If JohnBoy's suggestion doesn't appeal then have a look at Babe Ruth's ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=28543&message=111551&q=WXPTFTW#111551" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) tips .

Alternatively, download TweakUI for Win XP and see if there are any options you could use in that .
Susan B (19)
245355 2004-06-17 22:53:00 Yay, It's worked!!

Thank-you :)

Cheers!
Red .
Red_Eye (5774)
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