Ronnie Vernon MVP

rypurdude

There is nothing in those old XP folders, so there is no need to access
them. The "My" designation for user folders was retired in Vista.

The old XP user folders are now Junctions, which means they simply point to
the new folder that is used in Vista. They are there for compatibility
purposes for old programs that are not compatible with Vista. When an older
program tries to access one of these folders, they are automatically
redirected to the new user folder in Vista.

You can see a list of these folders using a command prompt.

Go to Start and type cmd and press Enter.

In the command window, type:

dir /aL

Press Enter.

The results will be a list of all the Junctions for the user folders. These
will show the name of the old XP user folder and the name of the new folder
that replaces it in Brackets.

A typical line will look like this:

12/13/2006 04:15 PM <JUNCTION> My Documents [C:\Users\user
name\Documents]

This line shows the old XP folder, My Documents, is now called Documents and
it is located in the C:\Users\user name folder. (Where user name is the
account you are logged on with.

Another thing you need to do is turn UAC back ON. When you turn this off,
you also disable much of the compatibility and Virtualization that is built
into Vista.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"rypurdue" <rypurdue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Steve-
>
> The KB article was helpful but my problem is slightly different than what
> is
> described in the article. If I read it correctly, the article explains how
> to
> solve the problem of a "Documents" folder in the start menu not pointing
> to
> the correct corresponding "Documents" folder carried over from XP.
>
> My problem is that it seems like I actually have two sets of Documents
> folders -- one from XP and one new set from Vista. I don't need the Vista
> set
> to point to the XP set, as I have already begun to save new files in the
> Vista set. However, I just need access to the old XP set. If I go to Start
> and then Documents, I'll see my old folders from XP. When I try to access
> any
> My ____ folder, I get the error message described in my first post.
>
> Thanks.