Special Folders View is a Nirsoft application. This means it is a high quality, portable application for the Windows operating system. The purpose of the computer software is to display all special folders of the active operating system. The information that are displayed include the name of the special folder and its location on the computer’s hard drive.

It will also display more technical information like the class id, class id name and if the folder is hidden or not. The main use is to that the program provides an overview of the special folders and their place in the folder hierarchy. A double-click on any entry will open that folder on the computer system. This could make it a tad easier for computer technicians to find those folders faster. The usual options to export the list to various formats including xml and html are offered.

It works on Desktop, Favorites, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Send To, Shared Documents, Shared Music, Shared Pictures, Shared Video, Start Menu, Startup, Temporary Internet Files, Common Startup and Common Desktop. I can think of two occurrences where relocating such folders would be a good idea. The first one would be if your c: drive does not have that much space and you want to remove everything that reduces space on that drive.

A second option would be if you dislike the default folder structure, why did they add Documents and Settings to the root folder of the windows partition ?

Back to the tool itself, as I said it is very easy to use. You pick the folder that you want to move to a new location and browse to that new location afterwards. (or type it in manually) Once done you click apply and the path will be changed. The 17K tool even features a backup routine to backup the files if you want to be on the safe side before moving them.

The restore default option turns everything back to the way it was at the beginning.