My Documents question

[Guest]

I notice on some workstations and servers instead of the My Documents folder
being named "My Documents" it is named "user's documents", "user's" being the
name of the user. Is there a way to change this so that it defaults to be
called "My Documents"?

 

[Mike Williams]

I notice on some workstations and servers instead of the My Documents folder
being named "My Documents" it is named "user's documents", "user's" being the
name of the user. Is there a way to change this so that it defaults to be
called "My Documents"?

It's named "user's documents" if you're looking at it from another
profile, or if you'r in their profile, then they may have moved the
shell folder elsewhere e.g. to "D:\Docs". In that case, the previous
shell folder is no longer "My", but "user's".

 

[Guest]

I've redirected "My Documents" to the home drive. In the home drive it shows
up as "user's documents". I there a way to change to always say "My
Documents" no matter what?

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Edit the desktop.ini file. Delete the section that looks like this:

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

 

[Guest]

Is there a way to apply this globally for each new user that logs onto the
machine. I removed the desktop.ini file from the default user profile but it
is still added for each new user.

Edit the desktop.ini file. Delete the section that looks like this:

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


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I've redirected "My Documents" to the home drive. In the home drive it shows
up as "user's documents". I there a way to change to always say "My
Documents" no matter what?

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Not without writing your own script. The user folders are created when a new user logs on for the
first time.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Is there a way to apply this globally for each new user that logs onto the
machine. I removed the desktop.ini file from the default user profile but it
is still added for each new user.

Edit the desktop.ini file. Delete the section that looks like this:

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


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I've redirected "My Documents" to the home drive. In the home drive it shows
up as "user's documents". I there a way to change to always say "My
Documents" no matter what?

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DJ wrote:
I notice on some workstations and servers instead of the My Documents folder
being named "My Documents" it is named "user's documents", "user's" being the
name of the user. Is there a way to change this so that it defaults to be
called "My Documents"?

It's named "user's documents" if you're looking at it from another
profile, or if you'r in their profile, then they may have moved the
shell folder elsewhere e.g. to "D:\Docs". In that case, the previous
shell folder is no longer "My", but "user's".