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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
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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.
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"Blackadder" <black@dder.com> wrote in message
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> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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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:
>>
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>>
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>>
>> "Frank" wrote:
>>
>> | 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.
>
>
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