I have a question about Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder:

Disabling the My Pictures folder is all well and good, but what about those of us who never, ever use the My Documents folder? I've always had a directory on the hard drive under my own name with a heirarchical structure for photos, documents, web pages, and the like. I've used this system since before Windows 95, and since it continues to work for me, I have no intention of changing. Which essentially means that the entire My Documents folder is useless to me. But, suprise surpise, Windows XP won't allow me to get rid of it.

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Here is why. http://www.fjbradley.com/mydoc-text.html

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FJ Bradley, et.al., is a great source of justification of M$ taking over our freedom 
to manage our own equipment. They are as helpful as a Kleenex for pneumonia. Therefore 
many of us have resource consuming directories that are worthless.






On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 4:33 pm, sTeve wrote:
>Here is why.
>http://www.fjbradley.com/mydoc-text.html

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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.


On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 5:15 pm, Red Shadow wrote:

>FJ Bradley, et.al., is a great source of justification of M$ taking over our freedom 
>to manage our own equipment. They are as helpful as a Kleenex for pneumonia. Therefore 
>many of us have resource consuming directories that are worthless.
>
>

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer ...NoShowMyPictures...=1......disabled..;)


On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 3:57 pm, DeanM wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder:

>
>Disabling the My Pictures folder is all well and good, but what about those of us
>who never, ever use the My Documents folder? I've always had a directory on the hard
>drive under my own name with a heirarchical structure for photos, documents, web
>pages, and the like. I've used this system since before Windows 95, and since it
>continues to work for me, I have no intention of changing. Which essentially means
>that the entire My Documents folder is useless to me. But, suprise surpise, Windows
>XP won't allow me to get rid of it.

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I have paid enough over the years to allow me to beef when M$ tells me how to set 
up my computer. I want the capability of managing my own storage areas and that is 
ALL that 'My documents, etc" is. I can hide them but they still take up space. At 
one time my docs was a convenience, now it's an annoyance to a lot of people. 

I don't care if anyone (or for that matter, everyone else) wants to let BG manage 
your computer. I want him to stick to programs, I'll take care of my own system & 
storage management.






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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What about "NoBuildMyDocuments" = True






On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 6:29 pm, triplate wrote:
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer ...NoShowMyPictures...=1......disabled..;)
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*LOL*...whatever it takes to keep the hounds of your *ss man!...LOL


On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 8:02 pm, Tom Swanson wrote:

>What about "NoBuildMyDocuments" = True
>
>

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If you right-click on the My documents folder, and select properties, select the target tab, you can choose any location you want for the my documents folder (doesn't have to be called my documents, either; mine is d:\data). You can rename the shortcut from My documents to whatever you want (data for me).


On Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 3:57 pm, DeanM wrote:
>I have a question about Stop
>Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder:

>
>Disabling the My Pictures folder is all well and good, but what about those of us
>who never, ever use the My Documents folder? I've always had a directory on the hard
>drive under my own name with a heirarchical structure for photos, documents, web
>pages, and the like. I've used this system since before Windows 95, and since it
>continues to work for me, I have no intention of changing. Which essentially means
>that the entire My Documents folder is useless to me. But, suprise surpise, Windows
>XP won't allow me to get rid of it.

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An annoyance which is not directly Microsoft's fault is that too few programs allow you to set their default file location. Yes, I can relocate My Documents and naturally I can split up my files below that, e.g. putting pictures into My Pictures, etc. but I'd really like more separation for some things. I generally don't consider a database to be a 'document' for example. But Microsoft only made using My Documents easy-they didn't make it a requirement so they aren't directly responsible for this annoyance. By the way, IMO the default location of My Documents is more of a PITA than the name. I really dislike the way the name changes according to who's logged on.


On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 8:06 am, Shawn wrote:
>If you right-click on the My documents folder, and select properties, select the
>target tab, you can choose any location you want for the my documents folder (doesn't
>have to be called my documents, either; mine is d:\data). You can rename the shortcut
>from My documents to whatever you want (data for me).
>
>
>

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Same for me. I hate that folder. It is useless anyway for me. I always saves my data on a second partition. As you know if your c: crashes then you lose everthing. Most computer now comes with 2 partitions except for the clones one. A backup partition is better then the C: partition or drive.

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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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