Uninvited folders in the explorer tree.

[SBO Dental Lab]

We have created one user account on a pc that everyone uses called "Office".
I've noticed in the explorer tree that there is a folder under the control
panel called "Office's Documents". In the properties of this folder it say
My Documents. We don't use the My Documents folder, only the default shared
folder. How can I get rid of this folder in the tree? I hate seeing unused
folders especially as people sometimes think that's the folder that they
should be sticking their work in when it should be the shared folder.

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[Kadaitcha Man]

SBO Dental Lab wrote:
> We have created one user account on a pc that everyone uses called
> "Office". I've noticed in the explorer tree that there is a folder
> under the control panel called "Office's Documents". In the
> properties of this folder it say My Documents. We don't use the My
> Documents folder, only the default shared folder. How can I get rid
> of this folder in the tree? I hate seeing unused folders especially
> as people sometimes think that's the folder that they should be
> sticking their work in when it should be the shared folder.


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[Dan DeStefano]

your confusion is due to the "new" way in which windows xp handles users (it
actually is not new at all, it is just from nt, on which xp is based). if
you are used to using windows 9x/me, then the use of user profiles will be a
new thing. in xp, each user account that exists on a machine has its own
"profile", which is stored both in the registry and in a subfolder inside
the "documents and settings" folder. within its profile, each user account
has its own favorites, application settings, temp internet files, my
documents, etc. the reason for this is to create a more secure and
compartmentalized computing experience where one user of a machine cannot
compromise the data and settings of any other user.
if you look in the documents and settings folder, you will likely see at
least 5 subfolders that store these user profiles: administrator, default
user, all users, network service, local service, plus a folder for each user
account on the system, so you will also see a folder that says 'office'.
the differences between these folders (profiles) are as follows:
the local service and network service accounts are used and managed by
windows and are not worth explaining, except to say that you should not
modify them.
the default user profile is a profile that contains all default settings for
all new user accounts. when logging on with a new user account for the first
time, a profile folder is created for the new account, and the contents of
the default user profile are copied into the new user account's profile
folder. this is the only time the default user profile is used.
the administrator profile folder contains all the settings and data for the
administrator account. you should not modify or change this folder either.
then there is the all users profile folder. this profile contains settings
that are applied to all users of the machine, such as start menu items and
the folder you are referring to "shared documents".
from what i gather you want to have all data saved to the 'shared documents'
folder on your machine. if so, you can either educate all users of the
machine that this is the folder to save their documents to or you can
redirect the office user account's my documents folder to this shared
documents folder. to do so, log on with the office account, right click my
documents on the desktop and select 'properties' from the context menu. this
will open the my documents properties window. you will see a field that is
labeled "target" - this is the location that my documents points to. click
"move" and browse to .\documents and settings\all users\documents. you will
get a dialog asking if you want to move all data to the new location - this
is up to you. if there is data currently in the my documents folder, then
you would want to move it to the new location, just be careful that you do
not overwrite anything currently in the shared documents folder. once
complete, no matter if a user saves data to my documents or shared
documents, they will be saving in the same location: .\documents and
settings\all users\documents.

hope this helps.

Dan DeStefano


"SBO Dental Lab" > wrote in message
...
> We have created one user account on a pc that everyone uses called
"Office".
> I've noticed in the explorer tree that there is a folder under the control
> panel called "Office's Documents". In the properties of this folder it say
> My Documents. We don't use the My Documents folder, only the default
shared
> folder. How can I get rid of this folder in the tree? I hate seeing unused
> folders especially as people sometimes think that's the folder that they
> should be sticking their work in when it should be the shared folder.
>
> --
> SBO Dental Laboratory Ltd
> 120a Marylebone Lane
> London
> W1U 2QG
> +44 (0) 20 7485 2097
>
> -Precision meets Art-
>
>