Windows constantly renaming folders without permission

The folders are actually named "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc ... but
Windows XP, perhaps thinking that you will think it more friendly for doing
so, substitutes your logon name in place of the "My" in each name when you
display the folder in Explorer.

If you use a Command Prompt to browse the "Documents and Settings" folder
(or wherever your personal folders are, but this is where they'll be if you
haven't moved them) you'll see that the names are as you want them to be.

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"CeeBee" wrote in message
48.16...
When accessing another computer in my home network I see a list of
shared drives and folders, including the special 'my documents', 'my
music' and 'my pictures' folder on the other network computer.

However Windows feels the constant urge to rename these shared folders
to "pictures of ceebee", "music of ceebee", "documents of ceebee".

Of course I don't want that. I want them to have the name that _I_
assign them.
But when I change the name of those maps to "my music" etc. Windows
however isn't bothered at all and directly renames the folders back to
those impossible and confusing differing names.

Does anyone know if it's possible to make me in control of my computers
again and change the shared network folder names to the names _I_ want
them to have?

Thanks for your time.


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CeeBee


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half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you
half as well as you deserve."

"CeeBee" wrote in message
48.16...
"Richard G. Harper" wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web:

The folders are actually named "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc ...
but Windows XP, perhaps thinking that you will think it more friendly
for doing so, substitutes your logon name in place of the "My" in each
name when you display the folder in Explorer.

If you use a Command Prompt to browse the "Documents and Settings"
folder (or wherever your personal folders are, but this is where
they'll be if you haven't moved them) you'll see that the names are as
you want them to be.


Thanks for your response. However that wasn't the point. I wasn't talking
about the "physical" name of the folders on the originating computer, but
talking about the impossibility to change that _virtual_ name Windows
assigns to them on the destination computer.

I don't need to find out what the real folder name is, I want to _display_
the real folder name, wherever I view them, not some fancy junk name
Windows provides it with. The virtual naming screws up the order of the
folders I'm used to, and I don't want that.

Basically the problem isn't Windows making up fancy and virtual network
folder names, (maybe out of misplaced user friendliness) but the inability
to _change_ the virtual name if I want to.

You could define that as a shot on "user friendliness", but I hold that to
be a long shot


Thanks anyhow.

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CeeBee


"I don't know half of you
half as well as I should like;
and I like less than half of you
half as well as you deserve."


You might check out the desktop.ini file in your My Documents folder, I'm
pretty sure the friendly name comes from there. Sorry I can't be more
helpful but my work computer doesn't show the friendly name, maybe it's a
workgroup only thing, so I can't test it.

re user friendliness. If I had to guess I bet that feature is for when you
view other user's My Documents folders on the hard drive or on the network
you don't get them mixed up with your own. It is easy to do if you don't
have full path display turned on.

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