How to KILL the My Documents folder??

J

Jack

Actually, I know I can't kill it, but I would at the least like to send
it packing.

I am in the final stages of kicking XP Home, which I installed about a
week ago, into shape.

Like a bad dog that it is, I have taught it to obey my will in every
respect so far except this one and those I have not thought of yet.

I would like to make the My Documents folder disappear from the left
hand pane of Windows Explorer.

I don't need to know how to remove the My Documents folder from the
actual desktop. I have done that already.

I wish to banish it from the left hand pane of Windows Explorer, both
from the from Desktop folder view and the Documents and Settings folder
view.

I want never to see it again.

I do not care if it lives in some dank, dark recess of XP's bowels, but
I wish never to see it again in this lifetime or the next.

I have already tweaked the registry thusly, as per this website,
http://www.jsifaq.com/subh/tip3600/rh3633.htm
_____________________________________________
QUESTION: How do I remove the 'My Documents' folder from the desktop,
Windows Explorer, and the standard Open dialog?

ANSWER: Add Value name {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}, a
REG_DWORD data type, at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum

A data value of 0, the default, displays the My Documents icon. A data
value of 1, removes the icon.
_____________________________________________

On my system, the last sentence is not quite true. This tweak merely
moves the 'My Documents' folder from the top of the Desktop view in the
left hand pane of Windows Explorer to the bottom of that view. While
this is a vast improvement, I wish rather to drive the wooden stake into
the heart of this beast and lay it to a good Christian rest or eternal
damnation. I do not care which. I have hardened my heart.

Jack

And this masquerades as progress:

"Click here if you're using Internet Explorer 6.0 with Windows XP or if,
for any other reason, your download doesn't begin automatically."

This says it all:
http://hp.msn.com/[!/BF+K}TXR`3U{EW3BOST3W.jpg
 
L

Lord Gazwad of Grantham

the unemployable said:
Actually, I know I can't kill it, but I would at the least like to
send it packing.

I am in the final stages of kicking XP Home, which I installed about a
week ago, into shape.

Like a bad dog that it is, I have taught it to obey my will in every
respect so far except this one and those I have not thought of yet.

I would like to make the My Documents folder disappear from the left
hand pane of Windows Explorer.

I don't need to know how to remove the My Documents folder from the
actual desktop. I have done that already.

I wish to banish it from the left hand pane of Windows Explorer, both
from the from Desktop folder view and the Documents and Settings
folder view.

I want never to see it again.

I do not care if it lives in some dank, dark recess of XP's bowels,
but I wish never to see it again in this lifetime or the next.

I have already tweaked the registry thusly, as per this website,
http://www.jsifaq.com/subh/tip3600/rh3633.htm
_____________________________________________
QUESTION: How do I remove the 'My Documents' folder from the desktop,
Windows Explorer, and the standard Open dialog?

ANSWER: Add Value name {450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}, a
REG_DWORD data type, at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnu
m

A data value of 0, the default, displays the My Documents icon. A data
value of 1, removes the icon.
_____________________________________________

On my system, the last sentence is not quite true. This tweak merely
moves the 'My Documents' folder from the top of the Desktop view in
the left hand pane of Windows Explorer to the bottom of that view.
While this is a vast improvement, I wish rather to drive the wooden
stake into the heart of this beast and lay it to a good Christian
rest or eternal damnation. I do not care which. I have hardened my
heart.

Jack

And this masquerades as progress:

"Click here if you're using Internet Explorer 6.0 with Windows XP or
if, for any other reason, your download doesn't begin automatically."

This says it all:
http://hp.msn.com/[!/BF+K}TXR`3U{EW3BOST3W.jpg

If you're going to cancel shit, don't ****ing post in the first place, ****.

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
M

Mike Robinson

If you're going to cancel shit, don't ****ing post in the first place,
What are you talking about? The purpose of a cancel is to CANCEL an article
you do not need posted or has a mistake in it.
 
L

Lord Gazwad of Grantham

the jumbled-up said:
What are you talking about? The purpose of a cancel is to CANCEL an
article you do not need posted or has a mistake in it.

Well then, cancel your ****ing post and repost it again correctly.
You have heard of snipping and removing other peoples signatures, haven't
you?

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
M

M8RIX

To take "My Documents" off of the start menu> right click on the start
button>select properties>customize>Advanced. You will see the "My Documents"
in the field under start menu items. Select the obvious.
 

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