Re: My Documents

From: Menno Hershberger (mhersh22_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:55:11 -0700

Menno Hershberger <mhersh22@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns95564E73F81butter@207.46.248.16:

> This one has been discussed here before but I didn't take notes. I
> have a customer whose My Documents folder opens when she first starts
> Windows. Her daughter, who is a non administrative user, has a folder
> called "Mary" which always comes up when *she* logs on. It's a legit
> folder that she made herself. I've had her run NAV, AdAware, and
> SpyBot all in safe mode and after updating all definitions. Each app
> found a bit of something and got rid of it, but the problem still
> persists. I had her check the registry location that Kelly pointed out
> on her site... nothing there. Another thing that may be helpful... her
> name did not show up when she booted up in Safe Mode, so she logged in
> as Administrator, and the My Documents folder also came up in Safe
> Mode as administrator.
> The only other thing that may be mentionable is that she tried
> running
> Spybot again in normal mode, and it locked up on "creating a restore
> point". I had previously had her turn system restore off but she had
> turned it back on again when this happened. That probably isn't
> related anyway.
> So today or tomorrow I will be going to her place to see if I can
> fix
> the problem. Anyone have any pointers?
> Service Pack 2 is installed, but didn't coincide with the problem.
>
OK... found a reg fix on Kelly's site (userinit.reg)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm line 255
We'll try that tomorrow. Hope it works... :-) 

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