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re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder'
Monday, July 25, 2005 at 3:40 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mark d. doiron
(1 messages posted)
unfortunately, while this obviously is working for some folks, it doesn't work on
my system for several reasons. first, regserv32.* does not work on my win xp home
system. not only do i get a "file doesn't exist" error at the command prompt, but
a hard drive search says the file doesn't exist. second, these folders are not all
created by win xp. my pictures is created every time i open powerpoint. my ebooks
is created every time i open adobe reader. and myvideos is created when i go to
save a job in windows moviemaker. ulead dvd maker also creates its own file folders.
i've complained to microsoft that they shouldn't be so presumptive as to assume that
i want all my work stored by file type. i work by projects, and i store my work
that way. it's no wonder folks are looking for better ways to find things if they
store all the same types of files together. think how ludicrous it would be for
me to store the thousands of images i shoot in one folder? and, sometimes i shoot
videos and write doc's in conjunction with those images, and maybe make a powerpoint
presentation, and i want all the same job stored together. sorry, this seems so
terribly obvious that i'm frustrated because the programmers out there don't get
it.
mark d.
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:
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>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:
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>From the Start menu, select Run, enter the command
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>regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll
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>to unregister the .dll file, then click OK.
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>Navigate to My Documents, then delete the automatically created folders that you
>no longer want to appear.
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>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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