Quote: Originally Posted by
Keith Miller \(MVP\) 
When you rename the User shell folders, the renaming is done via the
folder's desktop.ini file with a line like this:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName= Old Downloads
The actual folder name stays the same, so that it's in sync with the entries
in the registry under:
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
I understand that, but I haven't yet redirected my user folder to the D:! I only finished building this machine on Friday, and have over the past few days been pre-occupied with data recovery efforts on a lost JBOD array. The D: you see in the screenshot comes right out of my old computer.
Oddly enough though, when I turned the computer on this morning, the filenames matched, and when I renamed a folder back to "Old Downloads", the name change was reflected in both Windows Explorer and Command Line.
See here:
Oh, well. I'll chalk this one up as one of those little mysteries...