{"id":1152,"date":"2015-06-18T23:49:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:58","slug":"iis-and-vs-2013-express-hell-how-to-properly-change-my-documents-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/iis-and-vs-2013-express-hell-how-to-properly-change-my-documents-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"IIS and VS 2013 Express hell &#8211; how to properly change My Documents folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had an odd situation where one company I was working at turned off ALL OUTGOING ports (yes &#8211; all including the web) for all employees. You needed special permission and they would enable this. So all remote access was removed for all of my other clients &#8211; so I hitch hiked free wifi from a neighbour, but long ago &#8211; I moved my &#8220;My Documents&#8221; to a network drive. To switch this back &#8230; one needs to know a few things. My VS 2013&#8217;s IIS Express 8.0 would not read or write to its IIS config location (because it was still pointing to a network location which was unavailable) on the My Documents sub-folder. Well, here are the keys to solving it &#8211; DO NOT UNINSTALL IT YET &#8211; try some things first.<\/p>\n<p>There are TWO registry entries to change My Documents. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/tutorials\/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the command line stuff in this article <\/a>and sure enough this was the key<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><script src=\"clientscript\/vbulletin_post_loader.js?v=388\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n\t\t\t\t\t\tm=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t})(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tga('create', 'UA-1848300-2', {'cookieDomain': '.sevenforums.com'});\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tga('require', 'displayfeatures');\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tga('require', 'linkid', 'linkid.js');\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tga('set', 'anonymizeIp', false);\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/partner.googleadservices.com\/gpt\/pubads_impl_63.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/translate.googleapis.com\/translate_static\/js\/element\/main.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/translate.googleapis.com\/translate_static\/js\/element\/26\/element_main.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<div class=\"media\">reg add &#8220;HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders&#8221; \/v &#8220;Personal&#8221; \/t REG_SZ \/d &#8220;C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\Documents&#8221; \/f<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"media\">reg add &#8220;HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\User Shell Folders&#8221; \/v &#8220;Personal&#8221; \/t REG_EXPAND_SZ \/d %%USERPROFILE%%&#8221;\\Documents&#8221; \/f<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that the &#8220;Personal&#8221; key is the one that represents &#8220;My Documents&#8221; and on Windows 7 points the DOCUMENTS folder under your user profile. 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