Re: How do you get ridof MyDocuments etc?

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"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:

Malke wrote:

You can't get rid of them. They are system folders. However,
there's
nothing that says you have to use them. I never use them on
my
Windows machines. Instead, all my desktops have a second hard
drive
and I put all my data there. Makes backing up data and
restoring the
operating system really easy.

Yeah, yeah, I know all that. But tell me: why does XP turn
"namedocs"
and "name's documents" into disguises for My Documents? It did
just
that when I moved items from My Documents to these new folders
(which
I created as temporary containers for the two users of the XP
machine)?

If you want to get all in a twist about Microsoft or call
names, this
isn't the right place to do that. Instead, see what
newsgroups your
ISP offers (or look for a free news server). There are plenty
of
alt.* groups where you can b*tch.

If you think what I wrote is bitching, you haven't heard me
bitch. :-)

I really do want to get rid of My * folders, but it appears
that's not
possible. I was hoping someone could direct me to some hack or
patch
that would do the job.

As an OS, XP is fine. It runs programs that are designed for
it very
nicely and with no hassles. (Sadly, it doesn't handle legacy
software
very well.) It's just some of its "features" that are
beginning to
grate on me something awful. I'm paranoid about security, so
both our
Windows machines are very well secured.

Of course, instead of whinging you could be proactive:
http://distrowatch.com/

I tried SUSE 10.0 Nice features, but I found Gnome, um,
quirky. When
trying to change permissions so as convert one of my folders
into a
common folder for two users, I somehow either wiped out or hid
/home
for both users. When I plaintively pled for help on the SUSE
NG, I got
some very rude remarks about my intellectual capacity.
Apparently, I
should have known that you can't create folders just anywhere
you want
as in Windows and other dozy OSs. Doesn't make me
well-disposed to the
Linux community, and doubtful about the OS. If you post to a
Linux NG,
which one? You may be willing to give me advice about the
distros, but
this isn't the forum for that.

My favourite OS is OS/2 (Warp4, FP15). The best desktop bar
none. And
fast. But I'm realising I'll have to give it up. Sigh.

I use SUSE. Both my desktop and laptop run 9.3 but I'll be
putting on
10.1 shortly. I'm sorry that you experienced rudeness in the
newsgroups, but that's Usenet for you. These MS groups are a
lot more
polite than most Usenet groups.

If you want to give SUSE (or Usenet) another go, try posting in
the
OpenSUSE newsgroups instead of alt.* - and here's a link to a
*nixhead's POV re posting on Usenet (from Richard Stallman
himself):

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Here's a page of resources - the OpenSUSE newsgroups are at the
bottom
of the page:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17218.html?rnd=558081.6890536154

I also do not like Gnome, but there is KDE (which I use) and
there are
many other window managers. KDE is probably the most
comfortable for a
Windows-OS/2 user to get used to. I have OS/2 in a virtual
machine. ;-)

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings - I just get tired of
trying to help
and getting slammed with people whinging and being nasty (see
DanS's
post in this thread - how am I brainwashed?). I apologize for
reacting
badly to your complaint and I'm sorry to say that you can't
remove the
system folders in Windows. Just don't use them. Or... ;-)

Cheers,

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Danged if I can find the info now, but I KNOW there is way to
remove them from displaying on the desktop at least.
There is also a way to rename them, but darned if I can find
that either.

Point is, there ARE some admittedly minimal but workable
workarounds that can hide them; might have to spend some time in
Google to get the info though.
If you DO hide them though, make sure you know how to get
them back: There is a LOT more than just "your documents" stored
in there!

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