How to Change The Default Save Location in Windows 7 to a Custom Folder
When you use the “Save as” dialog box to save any file in Windows7, you are taken to the “My Documents” folder. Either you can save the file in your My documents folder there itself and later cut paste it to a custom folder you want, or you can use the “Browse for files” button to save the file in a custom directory.
Change the Default Save Location in Windows7 to a custom folder or directory
The problem comes when you have to save files frequently to the My documents folder. You save the file in My Documents library, then open a new window, go to the My documents folder, select the file, cut it and then move to the custom folder of your choice and paste it. This is just too many steps which can be avoided if you change the default save directory in Windows7.
Example: You have to regularly deal with email attachments and download them in your computer. This involves saving Word documents or PowerPoint presentations and saving all of them in the My documents folder can be in fact a bit risky. This is because, in case of a virus attack or complete system crash, there are high chances that the Operating System drive has to be formatted which will destroy all the data in “My Documents” folder.
How to Change Default Save Location in Windows 7
1. When you are saving a file using the “Save as”option in any application, double click to open the “Libraries” folder.
Change Default Save as Address in Windows7
2. Now double click to open the Documents library, as shown below:
3. Click the locations link in the folder to add your custom folder or directory where you would want to save the documents by default. This folder can be present anywhere on your computer, it can be a non operating system drive as well.
4. In the next window, specify the location of the folder and you are done.
Custom Save as folder in Windows7
So it’s actually quite simple to specify your own custom folder for the default save as dialog boxes. If you use Dropbox and use multiple computers at work, it would be a nice idea to include your “My Dropbox” folder in the document library.
Doing this will allow you to save any file directly in “My Dropbox” folder from the save as dialog box, and the Dropbox client will sync the files across multiple computers automatically.
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Hey, just wanted to say THANKS THANKS & THANKS for an AWESOME tutorial on how to change my default save to location. I would never in a million years have figured that out on my own and I save to desktop every time and that was such in a pain in the ars every time it defaulted me to My Documents, then going thru all those unnec steps you were talking about (cutting and pasting to desktop in this case). Huge thanks!!!