Windows 10: Are user system folders the actual folder or links shortcuts? I'm sure missing my old...

I have a new computer with a small boot drive SSD and what is now becoming typical, I have a much larger HHD for data. I THOUGHT I followed the instructions that I found here and elsewhere to move the system folders DOWNLOADS, DOCUMENTS, PICTURES, MUSIC, and whatever to new locations. Sure enough, I had OneDrive set to automatically back up files damn, I wish I would've known and as I was physically transferring files to the new locations OneDrive got overloaded and could not handle the 1T of junk I'd accumulated on my old computer\ you should've seen the jillion little red circles with a

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Create Shortcut to User Account Folder

A friend has his user account buried in the Windows folder so any investigation requiring a subfolder that is not listed in his Quick Access requires drilling down...to the Users user account.
My user account is at the top of the file explorer listing in the left side navigation panel-much easier.

Today I went on a search to find methods where he could have a shortcut that gets him to all the sub folders in his account.
The most simple of those I found was typing %UserName% in the explorer address bar then when search complete dragging the resulting icon to the taskbar fileexplorer icon. This creates a pinned link to the Users\Name of user account. I tested this out as well as the SEND TO DESKTOP(shortcut results) from the actual user folder. Both work as expected.

Is there an alternative to this 'shortcut' method? I wondered if there was an actual Windows 10 routine for this.

Rose

 

Vista Ultimate - 'User' Folder Location

No tried that.

Can copy the entire folder to D; but Windows still points to C as the location. Can change personal folders location to a folder on D;, but this still leaves hidden files etc on C;. Thus meaning there are 2 Users folders. Have managed to change the Public folder location to D;, with some registry tweaks, but this doesnt seem to work for the entire folder.

any more suggestions

 

Create Shortcut to User Account Folder

You've pretty much covered the common methods...

alternatively, you can create the shortcut, on the Desktop, from the CLSID Key:

Desktop right click►New►Shortcut►enter: explorer shell:::{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}

See complete list of CLSID Keys and how to create shortcuts from them:

CLSID Key (GUID) Shortcuts List for Windows 10 | Tutorials