Redirect of (my Documents)

Henrik · External Since: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi

In Windows Vista the desktop icon My Documents in XP is replaced with a
personal icon that are pointing to the user profile ( C:\users\userid), is
there a way to change the behavior of this icon so it point to the documents
folder instead ( C:\users\userid\documents)?

Malke · External Since: Feb 23, 2006 Posts: 1218

Henrik wrote:
> Hi
>
> In Windows Vista the desktop icon My Documents in XP is replaced with a
> personal icon that are pointing to the user profile ( C:\users\userid),
> is there a way to change the behavior of this icon so it point to the
> documents folder instead ( C:\users\userid\documents)?

Why not just remove the shortcut to the User Profile and then
right-click/drag the Documents icon to the Desktop, thereby making a
shortcut?

Malke
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Keith Miller MVP · External Since: Jan 20, 2007 Posts: 448

You can hide the UserProfile folder on the desktop by right-clicking its
icon on the Start Menu & unchecking 'Show on Desktop'. This can also be
accomplished via:

Control Panel -> Personalization -> 'Change desktop icons' (in the left-hand
pane)

To display Documents on the desktop, you need a registry edit. Copy the
text between the lines below into Notepad & save as a .reg file. Then merge
the reg file.

Machine Wide:
-------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000

-------------------------------------------

Per-User:
-------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000

-------------------------------------------

You'll may need to logoff/logon for the Desktop to update after the reg
edit.

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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

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> Hi
>
> In Windows Vista the desktop icon My Documents in XP is replaced with a
> personal icon that are pointing to the user profile ( C:\users\userid), is
> there a way to change the behavior of this icon so it point to the
> documents folder instead ( C:\users\userid\documents)?