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| How can you PERMINATLY remove "My Pictures", "My Music" folders from the "My Documents" folder. I can delete them, but they come back after I reboot.
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| Someone must know.
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| There is a way but I believe it entails disabeling system file protection and leaving it disabled. This is NOT advisable.
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| How about setting the Folder/Properties/Attributes to "Hidden" ?
That is a W2K workaround, will it work in XP also?
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| If you just delete them, they will come back. If you first unregister mydocs.dll and THEN delete them, they will not come back unless certain programs are using those folders. Photoshop, for example, is "tied" to My Pictures and I can't seem to find a way to change that.
1) Open Run, execute: regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll
2) Delete the folders
3) Open Regedit
4) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
5) Delete the data for My Pictures and My Music
6) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
7) Delete the data for My Pictures and My Music
Caveats:
Adobe Photoshop uses My Pictures
Adobe Acrobat uses My eBooks
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| Your tip kind of works. I did what you said then I unassociated every program that uses the my docs folder with that folder. I had the same problem you did though with Photo Shop. The reason I don't want the my docs folder to keep recreating itself in the c drive is because I moved it to another drive, a storage drive, so I wouldn't loose it in the event something unrecoverable. Another reason I moved the my docs folder instead of creating a new folder is because I like the quick access feature in windows when your saving something, your able to just click on my docs from the left side of the save window instead of browsing through a ton of file folders. I have 3 users on my PC I am an admin and the other two are power users. My wife's profile has no programs associated with her my docs folder yet it keeps recreating itself. Any more suggestions?
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| Photoshop is a problem. I've even tried setting "My Pictures" to the same path as "Personal" (My Documents) in the registry which worked fine for everything... except Photoshop; it would freeze at load up.
But now that you write back with more info... Do you mind having the My Pictures and My Music subfolders in the NEW location too?
If not, just go to the registry in the two places I mentioned above and change the data for everything that's inside the old My Documents folder (My Pictures, My Music, My Video, etc) with the path to the new location. Also, double-check "Personal". It needs to be done in both keys.
After a reboot you should be able to delete the original My Documents folder.
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| I did that for my brother's user and mine, but I'm unable to do it for my wife's. A while back I was experimenting with gpedit.msc and I removed the run line from her user. At least I think that's how it happened, it's only her user that is missing the run line. Is there any way to get it back. Also is theere anyway to regedit the local settings of another user (i.e. my wife's), from my user. Seems like it would just be in another area in the registry, I'm just not sure where.
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