Change Desktop Folder location.

Special folders such as My Documents, Desktop, and so on can be changed to any other location from that set by the default installation. Many users place the folder and file just in desktop for simplicity but when windows crashes and format the widows installation drive to regain widows. This resuts of lossing your important files on desktop and my document to. To prevent loss the important files and folder, you can change the default location of Desktop and My Documents location. There is other hacks to but this one is easier. First of all just move the required folders to the new locations say D:\Desktop

Then Navigate to

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

You can see other important folder location too.

Open this Registry key and edit the full path for each special folder with the corresponding new path. 
For example, 
the default location of the Desktop folder is C:\Documentsand Settings\username\Desktop. 
Move the folder to say, D:\Desktop,

and update the value for the Personal setting with the new path, that is, D:\Desktop,

without the quotes.

The change should take effect immediately. If not, logoff or restart your computer. Now any file or folder you created at desktop will be created at your new location.