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re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' Monday, April 26, 2004 at 7:06 pm Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer] System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer] Value Name: NoStartMenuMyMusic Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = remove folder)...same applies for MY Music.... On Monday, April 26, 2004 at 6:05 pm, Brian wrote: >I have been combating this problem forever!  What I have done in the past >was create a stupid batch script that Scheduled Tasks initiates several times per >hour that would "behind my back" delete those useless "My..." folders.  Today, I >came across your clever fix about creating another file with the same name as the >directory — >duh!< — never crossed my mind!  So I tried it.  After about an >hour, my POS XP box renamed it to My Pictures.000 and had the nerve to re-create >the dreaded My Pictures and My Music folders again! > >(I have XP Home instead of Pro...maybe that's why?) [Reply or follow-up to this message] This 'hint' appears to be incomplete. Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 12:16 pm Posted by John Walker (1 messages posted) I can't make sense of this reply. Is the first key (ending in "System") supposed to be blank? Is that what is meant? And I'm presumably supposed to create the second key if it does not exist? In that case, should it not be StartMenuMyPictures (rather than ..MyMusic)? I for one don't like to be guessing when I'm fiddling with the registry. This 'hint' should be corrected or deleted. On Monday, April 26, 2004 at 7:06 pm, triplate wrote: >User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ >Explorer] >System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ >Explorer] >Value Name: NoStartMenuMyMusic >Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value) >Value Data: (0 = default, 1 = remove folder)...same applies for MY Music.... > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: This 'hint' appears to be incomplete. Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 10:51 pm Posted by AndyP (506 messages posted) yah i don't think it's only incomplete.. but it's answering to a different question, just not the problem at hand.. although i too have the same problem on how to disable windows from automatically creating these folders, but the registry solution mentioned here only solves HIDING the My Music and My Pictures links from the Start Menu > Documents menu, and not REMOVING them from the My Documents folder.. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 12:16 pm, John Walker wrote: >I can't make sense of this reply. Is the first key (ending in "System") supposed >to be blank? Is that what is meant? >And I'm presumably supposed to create the second key if it does not exist? In that >case, should it not be StartMenuMyPictures (rather than ..MyMusic)? > >I for one don't like to be guessing when I'm fiddling with the registry. This 'hint' >should be corrected or deleted. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures folder' Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 7:45 am Posted by HeLLBoY (1 messages posted) Hey dude, why delete the folders?? If u ain't using it, just change their location...thats what i did. Change the location of the My Music or My Pictures Folders In Windows 2000, Microsoft added the ability to right-click the My Documents folder and choose a new location for that folder in the shell. With Windows XP, Microsoft has elevated the My Music and My Pictures folders to the same "special shell folder" status of My Documents, but they never added a similar (and simple) method for changing those folder's locations. However, it is actually pretty easy to change the location of these folders, using the following method. Open a My Computer window and navigate to the location where you'd like My Music (or My Pictures) to reside. Then, open the My Documents folder in a different window. Drag the My Music (or My Pictures) folder to the other window, and Windows XP will update all of the references to that folder to the new location, including the Start menu. From: http://www.freepctech.com/pc/xp/xp00174.shtml [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum