My Documents relocating spontaneously

[Matt]

I use TweakUI to relocate my My Document folder from its default
location in "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Matts Documents" to
someplace else. Everything works fine, but then a day or two later
something is spontaneously relocating My Documents back to its default
location. No files are actually moved nor is anything deleted and I
can just manually use TweakUI again to reset it where I want it, but
it's annoying. How can I find out what is changing that setting "on
its own" and prevent it from happening?

 

[philo]

I use TweakUI to relocate my My Document folder from its default
location in "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Matts Documents" to
someplace else. Everything works fine, but then a day or two later
something is spontaneously relocating My Documents back to its default
location. No files are actually moved nor is anything deleted and I
can just manually use TweakUI again to reset it where I want it, but
it's annoying. How can I find out what is changing that setting "on
its own" and prevent it from happening?

I'd try it by *not* using TweakUI

just right click and select "move"

 

[Matt]

I'd try it by *not* using TweakUI

just right click and select  "move"

I'll give it a try, but it seems unlikely --- they (My Documents and
Desktop) stayed put after relocation by TweakUI for years up until a
few weeks ago. Presumably something I added/changed has caused this
new behavior, but I don't know what. I didn't think I had done much
tweaking recently, no new programs installed, etc.

 

[philo]

I'll give it a try, but it seems unlikely --- they (My Documents and
Desktop) stayed put after relocation by TweakUI for years up until a
few weeks ago. Presumably something I added/changed has caused this
new behavior, but I don't know what. I didn't think I had done much
tweaking recently, no new programs installed, etc.

I don't know

but it's worth a try I'd think

 

[Matt]

I don't know

but it's worth a try I'd think

Nope, I tried it your way last night (right click, drag and move-here)
with the same result --- it worked for a while but they just relocated
on their own(back to the standard default locations) just a few
minutes ago.

 

[Daave]

I use TweakUI to relocate my My Document folder from its default
location in "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Matts Documents" to
someplace else. Everything works fine, but then a day or two later
something is spontaneously relocating My Documents back to its default
location. No files are actually moved nor is anything deleted and I
can just manually use TweakUI again to reset it where I want it, but
it's annoying. How can I find out what is changing that setting "on
its own" and prevent it from happening?

Which security programs do you run?

What happens when you select your desired location the usual way:

Right-click My Documents and select Properties. Click Move and navigate
to the desired location. Then OK twice.

 

[Olórin]

I don't know

but it's worth a try I'd think

Nope, I tried it your way last night (right click, drag and move-here)
with the same result --- it worked for a while but they just relocated
on their own(back to the standard default locations) just a few
minutes ago.

Try a right-click > Properties > Move, not dragging anything.

 

[philo]

Nope, I tried it your way last night (right click, drag and move-here)
with the same result --- it worked for a while but they just relocated
on their own(back to the standard default locations) just a few
minutes ago.

Guess it has nothing to do with TweakUI

no other ideas here