Remove My Pictures, My Music

[Guest]

I use XP Pro SP1. Everytime I open Windows Explorer, then click My
Documents, I find My Pictures and My Music listed as subfolders. I manually
delete them. Next time I open My Documents, there they are again. Any tips
on how to permanently prevent these 2 items from appearing? Thanks in
advance.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Those are Windows XP system folders which cannot be removed.

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Windows XP - Shell/User
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| I use XP Pro SP1. Everytime I open Windows Explorer, then click My
| Documents, I find My Pictures and My Music listed as subfolders. I manually
| delete them. Next time I open My Documents, there they are again. Any tips
| on how to permanently prevent these 2 items from appearing? Thanks in
| advance.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey!

 

[PattyL]

If you would find it less annoying, you could use TweakUI to move these
folders to a different location where they wouldn't be in your face when you
open My Documents. It's under My Computer, Special Folders. I did this
because my My Pictures folder takes up most of a DVD when I back it up and
then I can put My Documents on another.

Download from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

PattyL

 

[Guest]

Thank you Patty L.

 

[Blackadder]

Those are Windows XP system folders which cannot be removed.

Nonsense. You can point both folders to an already existing shell folder --
such as My Documents itself. However it's probably better to point them to
different folders such as %userprofile%\My Music and %userprofile%\My
Pictures. You can even point them to other drives/partitions if you wish (I
have an entire 600GB RAID dedicated to My Music alone -- enough for over
100,000 MP3s).

Tweak UI for Windows XP is the easiest way to change shell folders (under My
Computer\Special Folders) but the folders must exist beforehand (create them
with Explorer first).

Manually editing the registry entries under [HKCU \ software \ microsoft \
windows \ currentversion \ explorer \ user shell folders] is a little more
complicated and requires a logoff/logon to take effect, but the folders
themselves needn't exist beforehand. The entries in this key are of type
REG_EXPAND_SZ if they use environment variables (such as %userprofile%)
otherwise they're of type REG_SZ (in which case the path must be
fully-qualified), but the fully expanded paths will be copied to the "[HKCU
\ .. \ shell folders] key automatically at the next logon, at which time
they will be created and will take effect.

You can then copy the contents of the old folders to the new folders, before
deleting the old folders. Programs that use these shell folders will then be
directed to the new locations.

 

[David Candy]

If you say nonsense to someone you have to be right. Carey didn't say one couldn't move them and Frank didn't ask how to move them. So that makes your post wrong.

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Those are Windows XP system folders which cannot be removed.

Nonsense. You can point both folders to an already existing shell folder --
such as My Documents itself. However it's probably better to point them to
different folders such as %userprofile%\My Music and %userprofile%\My
Pictures. You can even point them to other drives/partitions if you wish (I
have an entire 600GB RAID dedicated to My Music alone -- enough for over
100,000 MP3s).

Tweak UI for Windows XP is the easiest way to change shell folders (under My
Computer\Special Folders) but the folders must exist beforehand (create them
with Explorer first).

Manually editing the registry entries under [HKCU \ software \ microsoft \
windows \ currentversion \ explorer \ user shell folders] is a little more
complicated and requires a logoff/logon to take effect, but the folders
themselves needn't exist beforehand. The entries in this key are of type
REG_EXPAND_SZ if they use environment variables (such as %userprofile%)
otherwise they're of type REG_SZ (in which case the path must be
fully-qualified), but the fully expanded paths will be copied to the "[HKCU
\ .. \ shell folders] key automatically at the next logon, at which time
they will be created and will take effect.

You can then copy the contents of the old folders to the new folders, before
deleting the old folders. Programs that use these shell folders will then be
directed to the new locations.

Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| I use XP Pro SP1. Everytime I open Windows Explorer, then click My
| Documents, I find My Pictures and My Music listed as subfolders. I
manually
| delete them. Next time I open My Documents, there they are again. Any
tips
| on how to permanently prevent these 2 items from appearing? Thanks in
| advance.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Thank you, David, for your magnificent insight and clarification!

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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If you say nonsense to someone you have to be right. Carey didn't say one couldn't move them and Frank didn't ask how to move them.
So that makes your post wrong.

 

[Blackadder]

Carey Frisch said they cannot be removed. Period. THAT was nonsense.
Pointing them to an already existing folder means you don't need to keep
separate folders for them, and can therefore REMOVE them, completely and
entirely. If that makes my post wrong to you, then so be it. You're clearly
beyond my ability to help you. Good day to you.

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
If you say nonsense to someone you have to be right. Carey didn't say one
couldn't move them and Frank didn't ask how to move them. So that makes your
post wrong.

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Those are Windows XP system folders which cannot be removed.

Nonsense. You can point both folders to an already existing shell
folder --
such as My Documents itself. However it's probably better to point them to
different folders such as %userprofile%\My Music and %userprofile%\My
Pictures. You can even point them to other drives/partitions if you wish
(I
have an entire 600GB RAID dedicated to My Music alone -- enough for over
100,000 MP3s).

Tweak UI for Windows XP is the easiest way to change shell folders (under
My
Computer\Special Folders) but the folders must exist beforehand (create
them
with Explorer first).

Manually editing the registry entries under [HKCU \ software \ microsoft \
windows \ currentversion \ explorer \ user shell folders] is a little more
complicated and requires a logoff/logon to take effect, but the folders
themselves needn't exist beforehand. The entries in this key are of type
REG_EXPAND_SZ if they use environment variables (such as %userprofile%)
otherwise they're of type REG_SZ (in which case the path must be
fully-qualified), but the fully expanded paths will be copied to the
"[HKCU
\ .. \ shell folders] key automatically at the next logon, at which time
they will be created and will take effect.

You can then copy the contents of the old folders to the new folders,
before
deleting the old folders. Programs that use these shell folders will then
be
directed to the new locations.

Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| I use XP Pro SP1. Everytime I open Windows Explorer, then click My
| Documents, I find My Pictures and My Music listed as subfolders. I
manually
| delete them. Next time I open My Documents, there they are again. Any
tips
| on how to permanently prevent these 2 items from appearing? Thanks in
| advance.