"User's Docunments" Icon Disappeared from "My Computer"

[bch]

Hi,
The icons of "My Computer" are arranged by "Type" and "Show in Groups". The
icon of "User's Documents" normally displayed together with "Shared
Documents" and Guest's Documents" in the group of "Files Stored on This
Computer" disappeared. Please help me how to restore it back. Many thanks!

 

[Anthony Buckland]

Hi,
The icons of "My Computer" are arranged by "Type" and "Show in Groups".
The icon of "User's Documents" normally displayed together with "Shared
Documents" and Guest's Documents" in the group of "Files Stored on This
Computer" disappeared. Please help me how to restore it back. Many thanks!

Open My Computer. Open the disk, probably C:, on which your
documents live. Open Documents and Settings. Open the
folder corresponding to you as a user. You should now be
looking at several folders, one of which is My Documents.
Right click on it. From the menu that opens, left click on
Create Shortcut. Drag the shortcut to your desktop. If you
don't like My Documents as a name, right click on your new
shortcut, left click on Rename, and rename it.

 

[ju.c]

This registry file should do it:

Docs_Shared.reg 1 KB
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?42zjuz4myb5


ju.c

 

[bch]

Thanks a lot!

The missing icon is "User's Documents", not "Shared Documents". Is
Docs_Shared.reg right for correcting the registry to solve my problem?
Thanks again!

 

[Kelly]

What this regedit does is remove DelegateFolders. In other words, if this
subkey is not present, you will not have the group: Other files stored on
this computer.

If you delete this, all of the Shared Documents folders (which are normally
under the group called "Other Files Stored on This Computer") will be gone.

That being said, you will have to wait for a reply from ju.c. )

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

 

[bch]

Thanks!!

There are four group present on "My Computer": Files Stored on This
Computer, Hard Disk Drives, Devices with Removable Storage, and Other. No
"Other Files Stored on This Computer" is present.

I just would like to restore "Username's Documents" back to its original
group "Files Stored on This Computer".

 

[ju.c]

Here is a quote from the tweaking program "X-Setup" that
describes it:

"When you open the Explorer, you usually see the Group
"Files Stored on This Computer" with two folders: "Shared
Documents" and "<USERNAME> Documents", e.g. "Pam's
Documents". If you do not wish these two entries to appear,
you can deactivate this option.
Changes are valid immediately but you may need to hit F5
(Refresh) inside My Computer to make them visible."


Just try it, it won't hurt. You can save a backup before you
merge the "Docs_Shared.reg" file. Copy and paste this line
into the Run box (it is one long line):
cmd.exe /k reg.exe export
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}
"%UserProfile%\Desktop\backup.reg"

If the key does not exist you will get this message, just ignore it:
Error: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value


ju.c

 

[bch]

Thanks! I tried to merge the "Docs_Shared.reg" file, but it doesn't work.
The "<USERNAME> Documents" is still not present.

 

[Jose]

Thanks! I tried to merge the "Docs_Shared.reg" file, but it doesn't work.
The "<USERNAME> Documents" is still not present.

"ju.c" <[email protected]>
??????:%23Tfd%[email protected]...

Do you see a section called Files Stored on This Computer?

Do you see the Shared Documents folder under that?

Do you see both of the above, but just missing Documents folders that
belong to individual users under Files Stored on This Computer?
Something like:

Shared Documents (already there)
Jose's Documents (missing)
BCH's Documents (missing)

Did it used to work?

What do you not see that you think you should see?

What do you see that you think that you should not see.

 

[bch]

Thanks! I tried to merge the "Docs_Shared.reg" file, but it doesn't work.
The "<USERNAME> Documents" is still not present.

"ju.c" <[email protected]>
??????:%23Tfd%[email protected]...

Do you see a section called Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes

Do you see the Shared Documents folder under that? --- Yes

Do you see both of the above, but just missing Documents folders that
belong to individual users under Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes
Something like:

Shared Documents (already there)
Jose's Documents (missing)
BCH's Documents (missing)

Did it used to work? --- Yes, I guess this is because the system once failed
to load the personal initial setup files while it was booting up. Probably
not working since then, few days ago.

What do you not see that you think you should see? --- Only "mine documents"
folder in the group of "Files Stored on This Computer". I also open one
guest user account, and the "guest's documents" is still present together
with "shared documents".

What do you see that you think that you should not see. --- None

 

[Jose]

Do you see a section called Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes

Do you see the Shared Documents folder under that? --- Yes

Do you see both of the above, but just missing Documents folders that
belong to individual users under Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes
Something like:

Shared Documents (already there)
Jose's Documents (missing)
BCH's Documents (missing)

Okay. we need to eliminate malware as best we can, backup the registry
and check/modify the registry if needed.

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

These can be uninstalled later if desired.

Backup the registry with this popular free tool:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

If your view is still broken, clikc Start, run and in the box enter:

regedit

Navigate to here:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths

(no spaces in the path above)

In the right window you should see a list of all the users that have a
folder listed under "Files Stored on This Computer" when you open up
My Computer. There is a default string listed too. If your user name
is missing, add it.

Right click in the right window and create a new String Value.

Name the new key to match the login name of the folder that is missing
is - Jose for me.

Right click on the string you just created and click Modify.

For Value data, enter the path where the missing user's My Documents
folder is.

For example, C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\My Documents

So if the user name is Jose, set the value of the new Jose key you
just added to:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jose\My Documents

Click OK and close out of the Registry Editor. Refresh your Explorer
view.

Look okay?

Restart to make sure it sticks.

 

[ju.c]

Register this DLL.

Copy and paste this line into the Run box:
regsvr32.exe mydocs.dll


ju.c

 

[bch]

Thanks! I did run "regsvr32.exe mydocs.dll", but not working. Thanks any
way. Now I am trying Jose's suggestion to see if it works.

 

[bch]

Great!!! This works!!!
I did the regedit directly as you said, and it works. The "username's
Documents" is coming back now.
Thank you so much !!!

"Jose" <[email protected]>
??????:[email protected]...

Do you see a section called Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes

Do you see the Shared Documents folder under that? --- Yes

Do you see both of the above, but just missing Documents folders that
belong to individual users under Files Stored on This Computer? --- Yes
Something like:

Shared Documents (already there)
Jose's Documents (missing)
BCH's Documents (missing)

Okay. we need to eliminate malware as best we can, backup the registry
and check/modify the registry if needed.

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

These can be uninstalled later if desired.

Backup the registry with this popular free tool:

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

If your view is still broken, clikc Start, run and in the box enter:

regedit

Navigate to here:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths

(no spaces in the path above)

In the right window you should see a list of all the users that have a
folder listed under "Files Stored on This Computer" when you open up
My Computer. There is a default string listed too. If your user name
is missing, add it.

Right click in the right window and create a new String Value.

Name the new key to match the login name of the folder that is missing
is - Jose for me.

Right click on the string you just created and click Modify.

For Value data, enter the path where the missing user's My Documents
folder is.

For example, C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\My Documents

So if the user name is Jose, set the value of the new Jose key you
just added to:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jose\My Documents

Click OK and close out of the Registry Editor. Refresh your Explorer
view.

Look okay?

Restart to make sure it sticks.

 

[Jose]

Great!!! This works!!!
I did the regedit directly as you said, and it works. The "username's
Documents" is coming back now.
Thank you so much !!!

I am glad it worked and thanks for the update.

The solution makes perfectly good sense, and only required one cycle
of messaging after gathering basic information.

I have no idea how that information would have been deleted but you
described some other issue that may have preceded this problem.

Hopefully, you also elected to run ran the referenced scanning tools
along the way.