Keep programs from using My Documents

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Published on 2012-06-04T02:17:18Z Indexed on 2012/06/04 4:42 UTC
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Is there any way to keep programs from using the My Documents folder (on Windows 7)? Everything program seems to want to get in there.

I know I could manually symlink each folder a program decides to create, but I would rather not have to do that for each program. Another alternative is to put my stuff in a different location than My Documents, but then I wonder why Microsoft named it 'My Documents' and not 'Applications: put all your stuff here'... probably because filenames cannot have colons on them, but still.

I'll probably end up partitioning my drive as I have been doing before, but I was wondering if there was any way to fix this painful annoyance.

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