My Music....My Pictures

[edro]

Can I stop Windows XP Pro from putting these folders in My Documents? I keep deleting them, but they come back.

I can't find a coorelation as to when they come back, but they do.

 

[hjo3]

I think Tweak UI lets you remove them permanently. Otherwise, there's prolly a registry hack.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and: wrong forum.

 

[Anubis]

no that i know of, however if they are empty why do you care?

i dont even use the My docs folder on C, i really dont even know whats in there

 

[CRXican]

why not leave them, it's not hurting anything

 

[VictorLazlo]

workaround

 

[meltdown75]

:heart: My Windows :heart:

 

[edro]

Regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

Found that... it works... but I dunno what else mydocs.dll is responsible for.

 

[ManSnake]

Originally posted by: edro13
Regsvr32 /u mydocs.dll

Found that... it works... but I dunno what else mydocs.dll is responsible for.

I am almost 100% positive that it will make you gay.

 

[chuckywang]

Oh no! Must save the 4096 bytes!

 

[yukichigai]

Eh, I actually use the My Music folder on my lappy. Nothing really wrong with it.

My Pictures is useful in XP because when you go to select wallpaper it'll automatically look there as well. Beats having to browse for all my digitalblasphemy files whenever I want a new background.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Oh no! Must save the 4096 bytes!

it's not about the size, it's about the clutter. Would you want hundreds of empty folders strewn around the desktop?

I use My Pics/My Music, but My ebooks, My received files, My Little Pony...where does it end?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
My Pictures is useful in XP because when you go to select wallpaper it'll automatically look there as well. Beats having to browse for all my digitalblasphemy files whenever I want a new background.

Except for the fact that everytime I want to change my wallpaper, it takes 5 minutes to load because I actually use the folder.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: yukichigai
My Pictures is useful in XP because when you go to select wallpaper it'll automatically look there as well. Beats having to browse for all my digitalblasphemy files whenever I want a new background.

Except for the fact that everytime I want to change my wallpaper, it takes 5 minutes to load because I actually use the folder.

It won't load subfolders, at least for me. Make one called "Not Wallpaper" or something.

 

[imported_Zeke]

Originally posted by: CRXican
why not leave them, it's not hurting anything

It's hurting me

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Oh no! Must save the 4096 bytes!

it's not about the size, it's about the clutter. Would you want hundreds of empty folders strewn around the desktop?

I use My Pics/My Music, but My ebooks, My received files, My Little Pony...where does it end?

My only complaint about it was that MS didn't have the foresight to include a "My Porn" folder.

I mean, c'MON....

 

[Yossarian]

I hate all the "my" folders too. It makes the system look like it's set up for a 3rd grader, when in fact it should be a tool for world domination.

 

[loup garou]

I don't understand the aversion to the "My" folders. They work great. Map My Docs wherever you like, and you get your pics thumbnailed, album art displayed and videos tiled. Works great.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: werk
I don't understand the aversion to the "My" folders. They work great. Map My Docs wherever you like, and you get your pics thumbnailed, album art displayed and videos tiled. Works great.

umm...XP thumbnails and tiles your pics and videos ANYWAY. And you can use TweakUI to remap your Places (The left side of a Save menu), so that argument goes out the window too.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: werk
I don't understand the aversion to the "My" folders. They work great. Map My Docs wherever you like, and you get your pics thumbnailed, album art displayed and videos tiled. Works great.

umm...XP thumbnails and tiles your pics and videos ANYWAY. And you can use TweakUI to remap your Places (The left side of a Save menu), so that argument goes out the window too.

My point was that it requires zero configuration.

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Zeke

Originally posted by: CRXican
why not leave them, it's not hurting anything

It's hurting me

It's hurting America too.

But more importantly, it's lame b/c if you like to keep all of your "user data" in one logical folder (say "data" with a buttload of specific subfolders under that) for easy backup purposes, it contributes to what I like to call "user data sprawl." Much easier to make backups from one logical folder than from 20 different folders all over the place...

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
I hate all the "my" folders too. It makes the system look like it's set up for a 3rd grader, when in fact it should be a tool for world domination.

"World domination" :thumbsup::beer:

 

[RossMAN]

I tried renaming My Pictures to My pr0n but didn't work

 

[Trygve]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
I hate all the "my" folders too. It makes the system look like it's set up for a 3rd grader, when in fact it should be a tool for world domination.

Exactly. It bugs me, too. Plus there's the attitude that the computer is really the domain of Microsoft and all its junk...and the user's files are tolerated, but unimportant, toys stuck in a corner. I seem to recall that, even though the Windows default is to throw everyting into "my documents," some system restore-from-CD functions will wipe the contents of those directories.

 

[BeauJangles]

Just make them invisible.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: dderidex

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Oh no! Must save the 4096 bytes!

it's not about the size, it's about the clutter. Would you want hundreds of empty folders strewn around the desktop?

I use My Pics/My Music, but My ebooks, My received files, My Little Pony...where does it end?

My only complaint about it was that MS didn't have the foresight to include a "My Porn" folder.

I mean, c'MON....

I rated you as a 10 for that.