re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder'
Saturday, December 18, 2004 at 6:04 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Hawkes
(4 messages posted)
I was really pleased to find all the advice given, as I too hate the My Pictures
folder. Unfortunately Microsoft Office Picture Manager also opens up a new My Pictures
folder each time I use it. OK, I know that one answer is not to use the Picture Manager,
but is there another solution please?
On Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 3:01 pm, Hugo Miura wrote:
>How to stop the My eBooks, My Videos, and My Music subfolders from appearing
in
>the My Documents folder in Windows XP and later:
>
>Here is a more efficient way to do that.
>
>Each new version of Windows seems to add a new set of subfolders to the My Documents
>folder. If you delete these subfolders, Windows will automatically recreate them
>the next time you log on. To stop Windows from creating these subfolders every time,
>perform the following steps:
>
>From the Start menu, select Run, enter the command
>
>regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll
>
>to unregister the .dll file, then click OK.
>
>Navigate to My Documents, then delete the automatically created folders that you
>no longer want to appear.
>
>The steps above disable the My Documents functions, so if your system is missing
>some functionality, you'll need to reregister mydocs.dll. If you want to reregister
>the .dll file, perform the above steps again but use the command
>
>regsvr32 mydocs.dll
>
>
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