 Hello everybody! In today's video, I'm going to show you how to move such folders as downloads, documents and desktop to another disk in a Windows operating system. If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browse in history. Hetman software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. Moving user folders is not as difficult as it may seem, but before doing it, it's important to understand why you need it and ask yourself, is it worth it? For starters, let's see when relocating user folders elsewhere is necessary. It makes sense to transfer system folders such as downloads, documents and desktop somewhere else if your system drive has little capacity, and the files you save to user folders reduce its free space very quickly. An operating system requires at least 10% free space on the system drive to be able to work properly and without lags. Another reason is trying to preserve important information. As you know, user folders on the system drive are the default locations for all programs to save their data. Unless you change the path for saving your documents or projects, you can lose them easily. The matter is that if the operating system can't boot one day, all the data on the system drive will be lost for good when you try to reinstall Windows. So the choice is yours – either change the directory where projects are saved or move the folders to another disk. If you relocate documents, downloads and desktop folders to a different drive, all your documents and files will be preserved even if you have to reinstall the operating system sometime later. One more thing to make you think about moving system folders away from disk C is extending the lifespan of the solid state drive, as this type of disk is increasingly used as system drives. So if you follow this popular trend and have Windows installed on an SSD, moving the set folders elsewhere will make its life longer. All of us know that SSDs have a limited number of write cycles, and data in these folders gets overwritten all the time. Summing up, it's a good idea to take downloads, documents and desktop folders away from the SSD to reduce the number of overwriting operations and extend the drive's lifespan considerably. Not that we know why moving these folders can really matter, let's start in the process itself. In fact, there could be other reasons as well, but I think you have already decided on your personal benefits from that, so let's start working with the actual folders. You would say, oh well, just copy the folders to another disk and that's all. Actually, things are not so easy, and it's not for fun that these directories are called system folders. Dragging them to another disk will only copy them, but never move. This simple action doesn't change anything in the system registry, and Windows will still see them in the system drive and continue to save corresponding information by the default path. Talking of system folders, some of them are hidden from the user by default, as under normal circumstances no user would ever need to accept hidden folders. And they are hidden for security reasons too. Wrong actions by inexperienced users may cause errors of the operating system that may lead to system recovery operations. Why you need it? Watch this video to see how to move the folder in folders, downloads, documents, desktop, pictures, videos, music, and so on. You can find them all in your user profile. If there are several users registered for this computer, each of them will have their own user folders. You can move the folders in several ways. To begin with, let's move the documents folder to another disk with the first method. Other folders from the user profile can be relocated in the same way. To move documents to another disk, do the following. On another disk, usually it's diskD, create a folder with a corresponding name. If there are several users for one computer, create folders with user names on their other local disk. And in each of those folders, create folders like desktop, documents, downloads, etc., where you will move the system folders from disk C. If the newly created folder on the other disk has a name different from that of the system folder, such folder will be renamed anyway, so that it has the name of the corresponding system folder. Go to the user profile following this path. The user's username. Right-click on the documents folder, select properties from the context menu. In the window properties documents, open the tab location and click on move. In the window named select destination, specify the new folder where documents should be stored. In my case, it is diskD documents. Click on it first and then on select folder. The properties window for the document folder will open again. You will see the new location. Now it's on another disk. Click apply. In the window move folder, agree to its new destination and click yes. Now just wait until all files are copied. Go to the new location of the folder and here you are. Now it has become a system folder. To make sure that the documents folder has been moved to diskD, follow the older path only to see that the documents folder is no longer there. Other available system folders can be moved in the same way. However, it can be done in a different way too. I'll be using the second method to deal with the desktop folder. You can find it in the same user profile on the system disk. Many users keep files and folders on the desktop, but it's quite dangerous. This data can be lost when you have to reinstall the operating system. In this case, it's better to move that folder to another disk. The second method involves the registry editor. Open it by pressing the key shortcut Windows R and type raggedit in the run window. When the registry editor opens, follow this path. On the right, select desktop, right-click on it, then choose modify. In the window edit string, find the filled entitled value data and enter the full path to another local disk in your computer. Then click OK. After that, close the editor and restart the computer. Later, you can find the desktop folder on the other disk. Follow the new path to see that the desktop folder has been moved to its new location. Finally, the last method, and I'll use it to relocate the downloads folder. To me, this method seems the easiest. Open the File Explorer and create a user folder on another disk. Then open another File Explorer window and go to the user profile folder on the system disk. Press and hold the Shift button, then use the left mouse button to drag the downloads folder to the folder opened on another disk. Under the folder you are going to move, you will see the line saying Move to local disk D. In your case, the disk later may be different. Also, you can select several folders at once and then drag them to the desired destination while holding the Shift button down. When the files are transferred, the downloads folder will be in another local disk of your computer. As you can see, moving such system folders is quite easy even for novice users. With the help of these three methods, you can relocate all available system folders from the user profile on the system drive. And that is all for now. I hope this video was useful for you. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Hit the bell button to receive notifications and never miss any new videos. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck.