"My Documents" Shortcut is blank

[Pat Garard]

G'Day All,

On a Compaq EVO notebook running Win Xp Pro SP2, there are (at least)
three locations that (used to) show 'My Documents':
In Windows Explorer (Explorer bar showing Folders)
On the Start Menu
On the Desktop.

In each location this has been replaced by a 25-space string and so appears
blank.

The target folder is correct, and the (blank) shortcut works ok.

I can easily rename it to 'My Documents', but would like first to understand
how that has occurred.

Does anybody know?

 

[Guest]

Rightclick open area center of screen and click Properties
Click Desktop tab and click Customize Desktop button
Under desktop icons either click the My Documents icon
or click Restore Defaults.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Byte,

Thanks for the response, but I would really like to understand how
the situation arose in the first place.