Re: <User> Documents link in "My Computer" goes to wrong location

From: Craters (Craters_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 23:35:02 -0800

Yes that helped, the first part that is, didn't have to go the registry.
Question though, what did that do? You can answer in techno terms, I'll
understand ;)

Darn it, that's the key I was looking for but couldn't find when I was
trying to figure it out on my own. Just so ya know, now it shows the proper
path; D:\Documents and Settings\[Crater]\My Documents. Substitute "[Crater]"
for my real user name.

I also did some further digging into my other little problem, which has been
going on for a while (not sure when it began). To re-iterate, the faded icon
that should be shown in the "My Documents" folder is not being shown. I
looked in the desktop.ini file again, and for some reason the proper
information is no longer there. This is a problem with all the users (there's
only two, my wife and I, mine is the admin. Well, not the "Administrator"
account, my account has administrator rights, my wife's does not. I'm running
XP Pro not Home, btw), but not the "Shared Documents" folder. The icon, or
picture, shows up fine there. At one point I had found the correct
information that the desktop.ini files should contain, but for some reason
can no longer find it. It didn't help anyway.

Thank You.... again.

"Ramesh [MVP]" wrote:

> Craters,
>
> For the 1st problem:
>
> Type this command in Start/Run:
>
> regsvr32 /n /i:U Shell32.dll
>
> If that does not help, open Registry Editor and goto:
>
> [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths]
>
> What does the "Crater" value read, in the right pane?
>
> --
> Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Shell/User
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org
>
>
> "Craters" <Craters@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AFAC8370-C31E-4692-B975-E07709E093FD@microsoft.com...
> Recently, not sure when, this problem cropped up. If I open "My Computer" (or
> Explorer and goto "My Computer") and click on my user account "Documents"
> (for the sake of this thread the user name will be Craters to help describe
> this), i.e., I click on "Crater's Documents" in "My Computer", instead of
> going to the folder that contains my documents, it goes to "NetworkService"
> documents. If I go directly to "My Documents" from the "Start" menu or select
> in the left pane "Other Places", the proper folder is opened. Can any help
> with this??
> Also, when I open "My Documents" there used to be a faded icon shown in the
> bottom right of the window that is no longer there. I already understand the
> icon is assigned by the settings in the desktop.ini within the folder, and
> have made sure that the proper information is there. At first it wasn't, but
> I did put it in and that did not help.
>
> Thank You.
>

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