File Stores in This Computer - not appearing in User accounts

[Synapse Syndrome]

In My Computer, in an Admin account, all users' document folders appear at
the top, under Files Stored on This Computer, as well as Shared Documents.

But on normal User accounts (and Power User accounts) only the Shared
Documents folder appears. I want that account's documents folder to appear
there as well (but not other accounts).

How do I make the user account's documents folder appear there like Shared
Documents does in normal user accounts?

Cheers

ss.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 1/15/2008 6:00 PM, and on a whim, Synapse Syndrome
pounded out on the keyboard:

In My Computer, in an Admin account, all users' document folders appear at
the top, under Files Stored on This Computer, as well as Shared Documents.

But on normal User accounts (and Power User accounts) only the Shared
Documents folder appears. I want that account's documents folder to appear
there as well (but not other accounts).

How do I make the user account's documents folder appear there like Shared
Documents does in normal user accounts?

Cheers

ss.

Are you saying that "My Documents" isn't there? It's kind of unclear.

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[Synapse Syndrome]

The date and time was 1/15/2008 6:00 PM, and on a whim, Synapse Syndrome
pounded out on the keyboard:

Are you saying that "My Documents" isn't there? It's kind of unclear.

Yes, the link for My Documents does not appear in My Computer on normal user
accounts. Only Shared Documents does.

On Administrator accounts, all user accounts' document folder accounts
appear there.

I just want My Documents to appear alongside Shared Documents in normal user
(and Power User) accounts.

ss.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 1/15/2008 6:40 PM, and on a whim, Synapse Syndrome
pounded out on the keyboard:

Yes, the link for My Documents does not appear in My Computer on normal user
accounts. Only Shared Documents does.

On Administrator accounts, all user accounts' document folder accounts
appear there.

I just want My Documents to appear alongside Shared Documents in normal user
(and Power User) accounts.

ss.

Did you move the My Documents location? If not, you could try this but
I'm not sure it will achieve what you're looking for.

Create a NoSharedDocuments string value in the following registry key
and set the data value to 1.

For Only Users That Are Logged on to the Computer:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

For All Users:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


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[Synapse Syndrome]

Did you move the My Documents location? If not, you could try this but
I'm not sure it will achieve what you're looking for.

Yes. I have moved My Documents for the user accounts, onto another drive,
so I have not tried what you suggested.

All the account's document folders appear in the Administrator account.

ss.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 1/16/2008 7:34 AM, and on a whim, Synapse Syndrome
pounded out on the keyboard:

Yes. I have moved My Documents for the user accounts, onto another drive,
so I have not tried what you suggested.

All the account's document folders appear in the Administrator account.

ss.

How did you "move" My Documents? By right clicking on the Desktop icon
and selecting Properties and changing the Target location?

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[Synapse Syndrome]

How did you "move" My Documents? By right clicking on the Desktop icon
and selecting Properties and changing the Target location?

The Administrator account has not had its documents folder moved, and has no
documents anyway.

One user account's documents was moved as you describe, by right clicking on
the desktop icon and 'Moving' it.

My main [power] user account had an entire partition mounted to the default
location, using an NTFS mount point junction, made in Disk Management.

So the same behaviour is shown by accounts using either method.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

How did you "move" My Documents? By right clicking on the Desktop icon
and selecting Properties and changing the Target location?

The Administrator account has not had its documents folder moved, and has
no documents anyway.

One user account's documents was moved as you describe, by right clicking
on the desktop icon and 'Moving' it.

My main [power] user account had an entire partition mounted to the
default location, using an NTFS mount point junction, made in Disk
Management.

So the same behaviour is shown by accounts using either method.

With the way you asked if, and how the location of My Documents was changed,
I thought you knew why it would cause this behaviour. Any ideas?

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

With the way you asked if, and how the location of My Documents was
changed, I thought you knew why it would cause this behaviour. Any ideas?

I still have this problem.

ss.

 

[Kelly]

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and verify this key and values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\My
Computer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If this subkey is not
present, you will not have the group: Other files stored on this computer.

Other than that, if you are using TweakUI check your settings under - My
Computer/Files stored on this computer. And/or run the edit on line 56:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Added info:

To get an account's My Documents folder to appear in Windows Explorer (Files
stored on this computer), add/edit a key in the DocFolderPaths branch like
so:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths]
"user"="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents"

In the right pane, right click and choose New/String Value. Give it the
name of the user. Double click the name once added and type in:
C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\My Documents

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[Synapse Syndrome]

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and verify this key and values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\My
Computer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders

Sub-key named {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}. If this subkey is
not
present, you will not have the group: Other files stored on this
computer.

Other than that, if you are using TweakUI check your settings under - My
Computer/Files stored on this computer. And/or run the edit on line 56:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Added info:

To get an account's My Documents folder to appear in Windows Explorer
(Files
stored on this computer), add/edit a key in the DocFolderPaths branch like
so:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths]
"user"="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents"

In the right pane, right click and choose New/String Value. Give it the
name of the user. Double click the name once added and type in:
C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\My Documents

Hi Kelly. I have missed your reply all this time.

Thanks, but I have tried all of these things. I have also tried making sure
that my normal user account has permissions on the DocFolderPaths reg key,
but it did not help either.

I have searched the usenet archives and have seen that many people have had
this problem, and you have often answered them with the above information,
yet there is not once I an find that anybody mentions that they have
resolved the issue.

Maybe, if you run in a normal user account in XP and/or have your documents
in a different location to default, My Docs just cannot display in My
Computer. It's very annoying for me that there is no solution.

Thanks for your help.

ss.