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re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder'
Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 12:54 am
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Posted by TonyW (173 messages posted)

The arrival of the My Documents folder way back when at least stopped a lot of the questions on BBS/Forums like "Where has such&such saved my document to - I can't find it".

Like a lot of things, Windows has had to be the system for the lowest common denominatior. Even so, some of the questions that arise do beggar belief ....LOL.

On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 5:36 pm, Steve wrote:
>You do have the freedom to pick another operating system. A lot of programs use the
>My Docs folder
>as a default location. If My Docs was removed a lot people would be asking why all
>the system errors.
>A good search of google will probably turn up some
>one who has a way to remove the folder, but I bet
>it would create more problems then it is worth.
>
>

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re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Steve: Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 5:36 pm)

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Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (DeanM: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 3:57 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Steve: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 4:33 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Tom Swanson: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 5:15 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Steve: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 5:36 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Tom Swanson: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 7:52 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (WonderBoy: Wed, Jan 18, 2006, 8:46 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (TonyW: Thu, Jan 19, 2006, 12:54 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (triplate: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 6:29 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Tom Swanson: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 8:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (triplate: Sat, Feb 28, 2004, 8:06 pm)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Shawn: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 8:06 am)

re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' (Calvin Crumrine: Fri, Jul 15, 2005, 2:08 pm)

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