Re: Which folders are shortcuts?

Oh and please explain the following statement
"For general shortcuts, I would agree with what you say, but the OP is
looking at 'shortcuts' where the system may not allow deletion"

Maybe im just ignorant but wtf is "shortcuts"

"Devious" wrote:

> Mike maybe you should take the time to explain what you are talking about.
> I have never seen more than one instance of "My Documents" in Explorer.
> Where exactly does Windows XP make more than one instance of it?
> do you mean Docs & Settings - My Documents for each user that may log on?
> If so then yes leave the other users My Docs alone but clean up your own.
> If there is more than one icon on the desktop and that is what OP is
> referring to then yes he can safely delete them.. why not?
> I'd be interested to know where exactly it is showing the second My
> Documents in Explorer....
>
> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
> > J
> >
> > XP sets up these folders for a reason.. one of them is for people who may
> > decide to add user accounts to the system.. ease of access is another reason
> > for what appears to be multiple entries..
> >
> > So why should you care about their presence?.. they do absolutely no harm..
> > they are there for your convenience should you choose to alter the way that
> > your computer is set up.. they take up virtually zero space on the hard
> > drive..
> >
> > I can't understand why some decide to go delving into the sub system looking
> > for problems to create.. the stupid part is that many download and run the
> > most appallingly bad stuff that creates more problems than ever an empty XP
> > folder can..
> >
> > Some of the folders are 'system protected' and for good reason.. when
> > computer illiterates download stuff and don't know where its gone, they can
> > be pointed to these default save folders.. Win 9x never had them, and the
> > amount of people not able to find files after hours downloading through dial
> > up connections were huge.. I heard chat room experts tell these people to
> > download to the desktop.. hahahahaha, just what an overloaded desktop
> > needed.. and they wondered why Win 9x used to crash out..
> >
> > Programs like Clean Sweep used to find duplicates.. again, some files needed
> > to be in multiple folders, but whatever.. users would delete multiple
> > entries of ctldll32, vbrunXXX (or similar) and then find that virtually no
> > program would run anymore..
> >
> > If XP has installed multiple elements of something, you can bet your life
> > that at some point in time, there will be, or already is, a need for it..
> >
> > Use your computer productively.. whether that is to defeat the enemy in
> > Delta Force 2, create a newsletter in MS Publisher, edit holiday photos or
> > videos, or playing online Bingo, make the computer work for you and forget
> > about the inner workings until you definitely have a problem.. and come that
> > time, return here to get fixes rather than delve into what appears to a
> > layman to be an illogical system
> >
> > BTW.. the biggest single threat to the world is man without wisdom wanting
> > to change it.. the biggest single threat to a computer is a user/operator
> > without wisdom wanting to change it..
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike Hall
> > MVP - Windows Shell/User
> >
> >
> > "J Lunis" <jay.lunis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:43048A90.4050302@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
> > >> Silva
> > >>
> > >> For general shortcuts, I would agree with what you say, but the OP is
> > >> looking at 'shortcuts' where the system may not allow deletion..
> > >>
> > > Well, since you sign in as MS-MVP, I guess you know something. Are you
> > > saying the My Documents and subfolders shortcuts are 'special' and can't
> > > safely be deleted?
> > > Do I really need 5 of these things?
> >
> >
> >
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