"my" folders

[Wasted]

Greetings

Am still in early days with a new computer with Vista.

In Windows explorer, and when using Office, I see shortcut icons labelled
things like "my music", "My videos", "My documents" which seem to be
hangovers from XP, but all of which give "access denied messages when I
click on them.

So why on earth are they there? Can I hide/delete them?

Thanks

 

[Mick Murphy]

There are no "MY" in vista.

 

[Charlie42]

In Windows explorer, and when using Office, I see shortcut icons labelled
things like "my music", "My videos", "My documents" which seem to be
hangovers from XP, but all of which give "access denied messages when I
click on them.

So why on earth are they there? Can I hide/delete them?

Such junctions, sometimes called hard links, exist under Vista for backwards
compatibility reasons. Leave them as they are.

Charlie42

 

[PaulB]

The "my" folders are not real folders but Junctions that are used to allow
legacy programs to interface with Vista.
They should already be hidden.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

They are the links for compat purposes. The system redirects output from
programs hardcoded to write to specific XP folders through these links.

 

[Gordon]

There are no "MY" in vista.

There are if the OS has been upgraded in situ from XP - but they are just
junction points...

 

[thomasr1950]

For Mick, just now i was on line, only progra i know i had running was IE
7.0, WebRoot & Trend Micro A/V. On the A/V it had been scanning for 45 min. &
had scanned 64%, i tried to go back to I/E & my pc froze up. Seems like that
is when it freezes is going from one window to another. I tried to reboot, no
success, had to shut down & restart, when i do i get the mesage: Windows did
not shut down normally, i have 3 options to restart, i chose normal. Does
this help?