Initial research:

Folder View Settings - Back Up and Restore in Windows offers a BAT file for backing up and restoring your folder settings. The backup portion of this BAT file saves the following...

I've been reading up on applying Folder View settings to either All Folders or all folders of the same type, but neither of those is quite what I'm looking for.

Specifically, I'd like to write my...

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After the system recovery, all my custom folder locations (documents, music, etc...) were gone, but the files themselves were still safely on D:. The C: drive versions of these...

This sounds similar (though not quite exactly) like an issue I ran into when I upgraded from 7 to 10.

You can read all about my misadventures on the road to recovery (which I was able to do,...

Yep, that did the trick nicely. Notifications, Personalize and Display settings all work fine now.

It was REALLY slow, though. It sat at that blue "initializing restore" screen for like 15...

Gah!

Right clicking the desktop, both "Display Settings" and "Personalize" are throwing the same error.

Time to cross my fingers and try a restore point. Wish me luck!

Actually, would system restore mess up anything?

I have two restore points available, both automatics. (Which annoys me. My manual restore points appear to have been automatically thrown away,...

Moving the users folder is undocumented and unsupported, though of course it's possible using sysprep.

I'd prefer to just stick with supported features. Moving certain special folders by going to...

Nice, thanks much for the screen shots. Unfortunately that's the same as I have, so nothing to try there.

Looking more closely at the shortcut command that throws the same error, I searched...

I just installed a second hard drive for data, leaving my C: drive for just the OS and programs.

Not wanting to go crazy with sysprep, I decided to just move my special folders the approved way:...