Duplicate Shared Music folders

[Guest]

I'm running Win XP Home SP2 on a Dell Dimension and the following has been
happening a while now but I can't seem to rectify it:

In my Shared Documents folder there are two Shared Music folders. One is
the normal one but the other is an empty folder whose address comes up as:
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music". If I delete this
folder the next time I turn the computer on it re-appears!

Any help on how to get rid of this annoying folder would be greatly
appreciated.

KEvO

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hello,

The "My Music", "My Videos" etc are system folders and they will re-appear everytime you delete it.

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[Guest]

OK. So why is an extra "My Music" system folder appearing in my Sahred
Documents folder and also appearing as if it were another "shared Music"
folder?

 

[Keith Miller]

They display identically because they have the same desktop.ini file.

The one you are trying to delete sounds like the "normal" one. More importantly, it sounds like
Windows thinks it is your Shared Music folder. When you are in your 'My Music' folder, and you
click the link to 'Shared Music' in the Common Tasks bar, which folder opens?

The two must differ in actual folder name -- set explorer options to 'Show full path in title bar',
navigate to the folder you want to be your 'real' shared documents and copy the path from the
address bar to the clipboard.

Start -> Run -> Regedit

Navigate to:

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"

If a value named "CommonMusic" exists in the right-hand pane, double-click it to edit its value &
then paste the path from the clipboard.

If the value "CommonMusic" does not exist, right-click in the right-hand pane and select 'New ->
'Expandable String Value' and create it, then paste the path as described above.

Log out and log back in.

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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]