Changing desktop location (Windows 7)

Recently, I had to reformat my windows partition in order to fix a crash with my OS, booting up was impossible. I lost a lot of files in the process.

Looked around the internet and found that it is possible to change the location of the desktop and documents folders :D. This is convenient in case you need to reformat your main partition.

1. Go to your user folder (i.e. C:\Users\chesster)
2. Right click the Desktop folder -> Properties -> Location
3. Click Move
4. Select the new location (preferably a different partition/completely different storage device)

It is also possible to change the location of other folders (i.e. pictures, music, videos)