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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    Chris Parks sent me this link a few days ago on How to remove Folders from This PC, but I haven't tried it. I have previously found the How To Geek quite reliable though. Perhaps some others may care to comment on the technique?
    You want someone else to test how it works, are you man or chicken? Seriously, caution might be in order, create a back up point and back up the reg file before installing the linked file. How to Backup and Restore Registry in Windows 10
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    I have finally managed to get Win 10 to recognise the folders on D: drive as the ones where I keep my docs,music. vids etc. I had to use a combination of the methods described in the links below. There were 2 really stubborn ones that I had to use the Registry edit for. They were Documents and Pictures.

    Move Location of Documents Folder in Windows 10 | Tutorials

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...cuments-folder

    Fix: Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected - Appuals.com


    Screenshot of how my D: drive looks now.
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    I have some more tips and tricks that I have picked up, I will post them in another thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    I have finally managed to get Win 10 to recognise the folders on D: drive
    You can't map them as drives?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    You can't map them as drives?

    Windows recognised the drives, it just wanted to use the C:\Users\johnw\OneDrive as the default location to store my docs in. My C: drive is only 240G and I store all my documents on an external 3Tb drive. Hope that makes sense.
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    One drive can be uninstalled...Go to start>One Drive>left click>uninstall. I haven't uninstalled it and map drives all the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    One drive can be uninstalled...
    but I would NOT do that. It's a core feature of Windows these days, it'll allow you to sync certain files to the cloud automagically, and you SHOULD do that. If for example you used OneNote, without OneDrive you would not be able to successfully use it.

    If you don't want your stuff synced, just turn off replicating folders. But I'd strongly suggest using it to it's fullest - its a great offsite backup and great to be able to share and/or sync files with family/friends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by poundy View Post
    but I would NOT do that. It's a core feature of Windows these days, it'll allow you to sync certain files to the cloud automagically, and you SHOULD do that. If for example you used OneNote, without OneDrive you would not be able to successfully use it.

    If you don't want your stuff synced, just turn off replicating folders. But I'd strongly suggest using it to it's fullest - its a great offsite backup and great to be able to share and/or sync files with family/friends.
    I NEVER use the cloud, and I never will, so I have no use for OneDrive.

    Why backup off site when external Hdd's are so cheap.
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    A good site to help get rid of Win 10 bloatware.

    How to uninstall (and restore) Windows 10's built-in apps | Windows Central
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    because of events outside your control? Mmmm, maybe like a bushfire? Or even a hard drive crash or three, or theft of your device.

    But the cloud is also "free" these days. Free versus paying cheap for drives. Your call. (and to be clear, I'm NOT talking about a paid backup service like carbonite or whatever the flavour of the time is, just syncing selected folders of files with your provided OneDrive storage when you have a Hotmail/Microsoft account)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    I'm not going to debunk all these. But let me just say, the more you fork with something the more prone it will be to not be how the manufacturer expects it to be. You fork with it, and if you get an unreliable system out the other side, it's your fault not the manufacturer. If you went and took the air cleaner, one pair of brake pads, and the passenger side airbag
    out of your brand new car, do you think the manufacturer would think that's acceptable? When they do a
    recall to replace the airbag, and they don't find it, is the problem theirs to fix or yours?

    With Windows and modern threats from the internet, in my view it's just not worth doing major change here. Leave Microsoft to secure the platform for you and make sure you leave it how they expect to service it's components. I've supported too many customers who have made their setup "unique" and just ended up with something that wasn't supportable and cost them time and money unnecessarily. If they didn't fork with it so much in the start, they wouldn't have had those issues.

    I'll step off the soapbox now and leave you to whatever you choose to do.

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    I agree with GJ as I never use those features Poundy mentioned. I synch locally to my NAS onsite and one offsite and I am a bit old fashioned finding it far easier to use a spiral backed note book for reminders, notes etc. I am old fashioned enough to know that I can solve a problem in minutes over a phone rather than ten emails over a day and misunderstandings are instantly cured in a phone call. I am involved in a new business start up at the moment so I may have to change my ways but I hope not.
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    I find it rather offensive the Microsoft sees fit to tell me what I need on my computer. This includes silly games like Candy Crush or Farm Animals. As far as including OneDrive, and other bloatware, that's fine, but at least give the end user a simple way to remove these features if they are not wanted.
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    where it's simple to remove, there's an expectation that you could do so. Sure, Candy Crush seems a weird choice to include by default, but I bet so did solitaire and minesweeper back in the days. All trinkets to make a nice experience when you first turn something on.

    Where it's not simple to remove, it's really more a core part.

    What car manufacturer doesn't give you options to add leather seats. But if you want the model with the sunroof, then perhaps you will get seat warmers that you didn't want, can you get them to take them out? No, they're a part of the car, you want A you sometimes have to accept that you'll also get B. Windows is no different there.

    Chris, I would have thought that a start up is *exactly* the place you'd want to have communal access to content in case someone else needs to see it in real time or to co-author things. There's some great capabilities that you're not getting - but that's totally your choice.

    As I said, you guys go for it. I've told you what Microsoft think (leave it all in the system) and what they expect when they fix security/reliability issues, so any consequences of your choices are yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by poundy View Post
    ...it's just not worth doing major change here. Leave Microsoft to secure the platform for you and make sure you leave it how they expect to service it's components. I've supported too many customers who have made their setup "unique" and just ended up with something that wasn't supportable and cost them time and money unnecessarily. If they didn't fork with it so much in the start, they wouldn't have had those issues.


    While relocating some default folders to another drive is legitimate and supported by MicroSloth (for example, using the Move function in folder properties) this can cause operational problems for software that expects items in the default locations. While this should not be the case, some programmers make bad programming decisions. If you want the bast chance of a stable system, as poundy says, leave well alone.

    Trawling through the system to save a few meg of disk space seems a fools errand these days - storage is cheap.

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