My Documents Folder Has Been Renamed.

[Deryck]

I have tried to edit the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}/Shellfolder.
That has not worked. Norton, and Microsoft antivirus scans tell me I'm
clean. They are both updated. Spybot and Adaware have found nothing. The
Folder has been renamed to "The Bolivars's Documents" ( poor grammer
included) It is not hindering my system just very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Deryck Bolivar

 

[Alan Edwards]

I have no idea why you picked that Registry key.

I would try here:

You can change the value of Personal in the Registry in these
two keys: (ignore the second if the value is not there)

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

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

....Alan

 

[Lindsay]

Is it the actual folder (e.g. c:\documents and settings\user\my documents)
or how it's displayed on the desktop/start menu? If it's not the folder
itself, then simply rename what you have via the start menu. Simply right
click>rename.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I have no idea why you picked that Registry key.

Rename option is grayed out, if Attributes and/or Call for Attributes values
are incorrect.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Keith Miller]

Where is the renamed folder showing up? On the desktop? Under My Computer? Or under "c:\docs &
settings\<user>\My Documents"?

It's normal behavior for the shortcut which appears under My Computer. If you want to override
that, you need to edit the desktop.ini file found in the folder and delete the section similar to
the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Keith
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents

If it is the folder in your userprofile directory, that suggests that your My Documents shortcut is
no longer pointing to this folder. Right-click the My Documents shortcut on the desktop, select
'Properties' and check the target path -- correct it if necessary.

 

[Deryck]

I really appreciate all your help. I'm still "dumb"-founded. Keith is very
close . It only show the wrong name under My Computer. The start menu , etc.
shows Mt Documents until I hit it under My Computer. I could not find the
ini. file you mentioned however. I'm sorry to drag this on. Thank you,Alan,
Wesley, Lindsay, and Keith for your time and patience. Any further help
would be sooo much appreciated. I know your time is volunteered, but very
valuable.

Where is the renamed folder showing up? On the desktop? Under My
Computer? Or under "c:\docs &
settings\<user>\My Documents"?

It's normal behavior for the shortcut which appears under My Computer. If
you want to override
that, you need to edit the desktop.ini file found in the folder and delete
the section similar to
the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Keith
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents

If it is the folder in your userprofile directory, that suggests that your
My Documents shortcut is
no longer pointing to this folder. Right-click the My Documents shortcut
on the desktop, select
'Properties' and check the target path -- correct it if necessary.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I have tried to edit the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}/Shellfolder.
That has not worked. Norton, and Microsoft antivirus scans tell me I'm
clean. They are both updated. Spybot and Adaware have found nothing. The
Folder has been renamed to "The Bolivars's Documents" ( poor grammer
included) It is not hindering my system just very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Deryck Bolivar

 

[Alan Edwards]

Ahhhh. I see what you mean. Not a place I normally go.
Mine reads as "Alan Edwards's Documents". That is standard, though, as
you say, lousy grammar.
Desktop.ini is hidden.
If you don't see it, then change your view in Explorer-Tools-Folder
Options-View or just open the folder from My Computer and search for
"desktop.ini"

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.org/index.html

I really appreciate all your help. I'm still "dumb"-founded. Keith is very
close . It only show the wrong name under My Computer. The start menu , etc.
shows Mt Documents until I hit it under My Computer. I could not find the
ini. file you mentioned however. I'm sorry to drag this on. Thank you,Alan,
Wesley, Lindsay, and Keith for your time and patience. Any further help
would be sooo much appreciated. I know your time is volunteered, but very
valuable.

Where is the renamed folder showing up? On the desktop? Under My
Computer? Or under "c:\docs &
settings\<user>\My Documents"?

It's normal behavior for the shortcut which appears under My Computer. If
you want to override
that, you need to edit the desktop.ini file found in the folder and delete
the section similar to
the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Keith
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents

If it is the folder in your userprofile directory, that suggests that your
My Documents shortcut is
no longer pointing to this folder. Right-click the My Documents shortcut
on the desktop, select
'Properties' and check the target path -- correct it if necessary.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I have tried to edit the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}/Shellfolder.
That has not worked. Norton, and Microsoft antivirus scans tell me I'm
clean. They are both updated. Spybot and Adaware have found nothing. The
Folder has been renamed to "The Bolivars's Documents" ( poor grammer
included) It is not hindering my system just very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Deryck Bolivar

 

[Keith Miller]

If your user name is "The Bolivars" then the name is exactly right -- at least as far as XP is
concerned

XP is designed as a multiuser system; every user has a 'My Documents' folder; every user's 'My
Document's' folder will be displayed under 'My Computer'. Displaying the folders as "<UserName>'s
Document's" is meant to be less confusing than giving you the choice of multiple folders with the
same name.

As Alan said, if you set Explorer view options to "Show hidden files and folders", you should be
able to find the desktop.ini file and then edit it as I described earlier.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I really appreciate all your help. I'm still "dumb"-founded. Keith is very
close . It only show the wrong name under My Computer. The start menu , etc.
shows Mt Documents until I hit it under My Computer. I could not find the
ini. file you mentioned however. I'm sorry to drag this on. Thank you,Alan,
Wesley, Lindsay, and Keith for your time and patience. Any further help
would be sooo much appreciated. I know your time is volunteered, but very
valuable.

Where is the renamed folder showing up? On the desktop? Under My
Computer? Or under "c:\docs &
settings\<user>\My Documents"?

It's normal behavior for the shortcut which appears under My Computer. If
you want to override
that, you need to edit the desktop.ini file found in the folder and delete
the section similar to
the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Keith
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents

If it is the folder in your userprofile directory, that suggests that your
My Documents shortcut is
no longer pointing to this folder. Right-click the My Documents shortcut
on the desktop, select
'Properties' and check the target path -- correct it if necessary.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I have tried to edit the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}/Shellfolder.
That has not worked. Norton, and Microsoft antivirus scans tell me I'm
clean. They are both updated. Spybot and Adaware have found nothing. The
Folder has been renamed to "The Bolivars's Documents" ( poor grammer
included) It is not hindering my system just very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Deryck Bolivar

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Mine reads as "Alan Edwards's Documents". That is standard, though, as
you say, lousy grammar.

No, it isn't lousy grammar.Adding apostrophe-s is the correct way to form
the possessive, even for names that end in "s."

At least that's true in the USA. I can't speak with certainty about your
neck of the woods.

 

[Tim Slattery]

No, it isn't lousy grammar.Adding apostrophe-s is the correct way to form
the possessive, even for names that end in "s."

At least that's true in the USA. I can't speak with certainty about your
neck of the woods.

According to my "Business Writer's Handbook", published in New York:

"Singular nouns that end in s form the possessive either by adding
only an apostrophe or by adding both an apostrophe and an s.
EXAMPLES: a waitress' uniform/an acress' career
a waitress's uniform/an actress's career "

So, according to that, "Alan Edwards' Documents" would be correct as
is "Alan Edwards's Documents". The book doesn't address possive forms
of proper names, though.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

According to my "Business Writer's Handbook", published in New York:

"Singular nouns that end in s form the possessive either by adding
only an apostrophe or by adding both an apostrophe and an s.
EXAMPLES: a waitress' uniform/an acress' career
a waitress's uniform/an actress's career "

So, according to that, "Alan Edwards' Documents" would be correct as
is "Alan Edwards's Documents". The book doesn't address possive forms
of proper names, though.

"The Chicago Manual of Style" is a widely-used and respected source of such
information. It's my personal "bible" for such matters. Here are the two
pertinent brief excerpts from it:

"6.12 The possessive case of singular nouns is formed by the addition of an
apostrophe and an s, and the possessive of plural nouns (except for a few
irregular plurals) by the addition of an apostrophe only."

"6.15 Proper names. The general rule covers proper names as well as common,
including most names of any length ending in sibilants."

It goes on to give examples of "Burns's poems," "Marx's theories," and
Berlioz's operas."

This of course is wildly off-topic. I hadn't planned to make more than the
one brief original post on this, and I'll stop now.

 

[Alan Edwards]

It is lousy grammar in my neck of the woods and I believe in
UK-English. I can't speak for US-English which seems to have its own
rules.
I agree with Tim's response.

....Alan

 

[Deryck]

Still struggling. When I checked to show all hidden files it did'nt show the
desktop.ini. file . When I did a search for it, it came up in C:\Documents
and settings\Deryck\My Documents\our dvd's . When I opened it . It was
nothing just blank. The reason I'm concerned is this name change just
happened, ( I have had this computer for four years from new.) Inside the
"my computer" folder , the folder has always been My documents.
Thanks everyone for your help, (and grammer lessons) ;-)

If your user name is "The Bolivars" then the name is exactly right -- at
least as far as XP is
concerned

XP is designed as a multiuser system; every user has a 'My Documents'
folder; every user's 'My
Document's' folder will be displayed under 'My Computer'. Displaying the
folders as "<UserName>'s
Document's" is meant to be less confusing than giving you the choice of
multiple folders with the
same name.

As Alan said, if you set Explorer view options to "Show hidden files and
folders", you should be
able to find the desktop.ini file and then edit it as I described earlier.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I really appreciate all your help. I'm still "dumb"-founded. Keith is
very
close . It only show the wrong name under My Computer. The start menu ,
etc.
shows Mt Documents until I hit it under My Computer. I could not find the
ini. file you mentioned however. I'm sorry to drag this on. Thank
you,Alan,
Wesley, Lindsay, and Keith for your time and patience. Any further help
would be sooo much appreciated. I know your time is volunteered, but very
valuable.

Where is the renamed folder showing up? On the desktop? Under My
Computer? Or under "c:\docs &
settings\<user>\My Documents"?

It's normal behavior for the shortcut which appears under My Computer.
If
you want to override
that, you need to edit the desktop.ini file found in the folder and
delete
the section similar to
the following:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Keith
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents

If it is the folder in your userprofile directory, that suggests that
your
My Documents shortcut is
no longer pointing to this folder. Right-click the My Documents
shortcut
on the desktop, select
'Properties' and check the target path -- correct it if necessary.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


I have tried to edit the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}/Shellfolder.
That has not worked. Norton, and Microsoft antivirus scans tell me I'm
clean. They are both updated. Spybot and Adaware have found nothing.
The
Folder has been renamed to "The Bolivars's Documents" ( poor grammer
included) It is not hindering my system just very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Deryck Bolivar

 

[Guest]

The appropriate method for mitigating the apostrophe-s is to refer to your
style manual. Ken chose Chicago. Here's another example from US GPO:

following Robert's Rules of Order
the planet Mars's craters
a study of Socrates's writings
Charles Dickens's novels
Robert Burns's immortal poetry
President Adams's defense of law
Jefferson Davis's home

Pray, what style manual are you using that makes this standard usage "poor
grammar"?