[K12OSN] regfile for redirect of My Documents

[Jason Ingalls]

I'd love to look at them!

Thanks,

-- 
Jason Ingalls
Ellsworth School Department
IT Specialist
207-667-4722 Ext. 5529
jingalls (at) ellsworthschools.org


Quoting Brian Chivers <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk>:

> Jason Ingalls wrote:
>> This may get double posted since I originally replied from an unsubscribed
>> account. I'll apologize in advance :)
>>
>> I work with Chuck and we've been working on this issue together.
>>
>> Is there a reason this doesn't work:
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> REGEDIT4
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders]
>>
>> "Personal"=- (this part works, it deletes the Personal entry)
>>
>> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders]
>>
>> "Personal"="P:\My Documents" (this part doesn't work, no Personal entry is
>> recreated)
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> I hadn't thought about trying to replace the entire key, I'll try that
>> tomorrow.
>
> I use a combination of reg files & kixstart script to alter thing 
> like this. I can't praise Kixstart.org enough there scipting tool is 
> really good, you can do loads with it.
>
>
> Here is the section of my login.kix file that alter my doc's, it's 
> called by startup.bat
>
> $mydocs="p:\";
> $ikey="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell 
> Folders"
> 		IF (WriteValue($ikey,"Personal",$mydocs,"REG_SZ") <> 0)
> 			? "Update error MyDocuments @error: @serror"
> 		ENDIF
> 	$ikey="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell 
> Folders"
> 		IF (WriteValue($ikey,"Personal",$mydocs,"REG_SZ") <> 0)
> 			? "Update error MyDocuments @error: @serror"
> 		ENDIF
>
> Looking at the above it would appear that you need to alter 2 keys, 
> Shell Folders & User Shell Folders, most of this bit came off the 
> kixstart.org forum.
>
> If you'd like the complete files let me know and I'll send them over
>
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