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Remove My documents and Shared documents - DAMINK™ - 10-19-2009
If your at all like me you hate seeing the My Documents etc.
Given i have multiple partitions and multiple drives it seems kind of useless.
(Prob why vista dont have it)
Anyway here is how to do it.
1. Run regedit or similar registry editing tool (start/run/regedit).
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders.
3. Right-click the subkey {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} and Delete it.
4. Close regedit and your done.
*EDIT*
This only deletes the shortcut within My Computer. The file structure remains intact. You can navigate to My Documents and Shared Documents.
No files will be lost.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - ProspectDotNet - 10-19-2009
Is this reversible also?
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - DAMINK™ - 10-19-2009
Not that i am aware of no.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - ProspectDotNet - 10-19-2009
Well I was just wondering. It's really not important enough to keep around anyways.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - DAMINK™ - 10-19-2009
They still exist within C just the shortcut is gone. But nothing will be lost or anything like that ofcourse.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - ProspectDotNet - 10-19-2009
Oh okay. Sorry so it's just the removal of the shortcut. I get it now. I thought you meant everything. It's getting late and I've been on the forums all day. Bleh.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - DAMINK™ - 10-19-2009
Sorry mate i should have made it clearer in the original post and will edit it now to suit as i think its needed info.
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - Extasey - 10-20-2009
Possible to replace these shortcuts?
Because I have the same type of setup as you (multiple partitions over multiple hard drives) could I change My documents to C:
Shared documents to E:
So on so forth?
RE: Remove My documents and Shared documents - UID=0 - 10-23-2009
(10-19-2009, 08:48 PM)ProspectDotNet Wrote: Is this reversible also?
I would say it is reversible!
If you copy the key, before you delete or zero the value of the data, then re-importing the key should put it back to it's original state.