My Music regedit

[Guest]

My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the C: drive
to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but Windows
doesn't recognize it.
I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced - My
Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start menu and,
more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL FOLDERS
that I can change the location to.
I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my registry is
reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key I am missing?
Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.

 

[neil]

You could try this link http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm from
Kellys Korner, search down the page for line 240.

Neil

 

[Guest]

You might use regedt32 to look at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
Folders

But the most likely problem is 'ownership' of the files.
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421

 

[WTC]

My Music folder was lost (hard drive crash). I had moved it off the
C: drive to an other internal hard drive (320GB) for my 18,000 songs.
I tried to create it in default My Documents folder which is ok but
Windows doesn't recognize it.
I tried the Start - Properties - Start Menu - Customize - Advanced -
My Music - Display as a link but it still doesn't show in the start
menu and, more importantly, iTunes can't find it either.
I tried TweakUI but that doesn't list MY Music as one of the SPECIAL
FOLDERS that I can change the location to.
I have updated the registry but when I restart the computer my
registry is reset to not finding the My Music folder. Is there a key
I am missing? Is there a next step? Thanks in advance.

Hi Blue Rocks,

Try restting the Shell Folder paths using Ramesh's article.

Reset the Shell Folders paths to defaults
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

[Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MVP]