Ok I screwed up
I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my laptop.
Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new software
i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my pictures"
I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I have
run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to
reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the
networked path setting for this folder.
Help Anyone??
Thanks in advance
Mike

What's the value for the path of My Pictures under this key?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

An admin account should be able to change the value (back) to:

C:\Documents and Settings\<Your UserName>\My Documents\My Pictures

(or wherever you want it).

"Mike Reed" wrote:

> Ok I screwed up
> I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my laptop.
> Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new software
> i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my pictures"
> I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I have
> run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to
> reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the
> networked path setting for this folder.
> Help Anyone??
> Thanks in advance
> Mike

Script
your over my head can you take it one step at a time
Thanks

"Script" wrote:

> What's the value for the path of My Pictures under this key?
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
> Folders
>
> An admin account should be able to change the value (back) to:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\<Your UserName>\My Documents\My Pictures
>
> (or wherever you want it).
>
> "Mike Reed" wrote:
>
> > Ok I screwed up
> > I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my laptop.
> > Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new software
> > i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my pictures"
> > I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I have
> > run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to
> > reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the
> > networked path setting for this folder.
> > Help Anyone??
> > Thanks in advance
> > Mike

Hi Mike,

You may have to fix the shell folder path in the registry manually. See:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Mike Reed" <Mike (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:5C7F362E-C3C0-41B1-A7D8-(E-Mail Removed)...
Ok I screwed up
I moved "my pictures" to a networked drive to save disk space on my laptop.
Now I can no longer access that drive. So when I try to install new software
i get an error msg that says "can't access\\drive\c\miks stuff\my pictures"
I have created a new My pix.. folder in my profile under my docs.. I have
run the comand line "rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit" witch seemed to
reinstall the desktop.ini for the folder. But I can't seem to change the
networked path setting for this folder.
Help Anyone??
Thanks in advance
Mike