Notepad Saving Files to Wrong Folders

From: Amy (mybuddy1998_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/28/04

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    Hi,

    I recently had a situation where Windows Explorer was missing folders
    for some of my user accounts. It turned out that the
    "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\DocFolderPaths" key in the registry was missing values for
    these user accounts. I added these accounts to the key and all
    appeared to be ok until last night when I was logged in as one of the
    users whose folder was initially missing from the key and saved a
    Notepad file. Instead of being saved in the My Documents folder for
    the login I was using, it was saved to the My Documents folder of
    another login.

    I tested saving documents created in Wordpad, Word, and MS Works
    Spread***. All files were saved in the correct My Documents folder.
    It seems that only Notepad is saving to the wrong folder.

    I ran "cmd /k set homepath" and the correct path was given. I also
    ran "explorer /e,%userprofile%, and the correct folder was highlighted
    in Windows Explorer.

    I checked Notepad's properties. The "Start in" field's value is
    %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% which seems to be correct based on this field's
    value for other logins.

    All other logins save Notepad files to the correct "My Documents"
    folder.

    Is there another setting, Registry key etc that I should check?

    Any suggestions?

    TIA

    Amy

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