Thanks Brink, I'd already seen those tutorials they are well written and
clear. However, I can't even get to first base with them. In the first
tutorial, How to Fix a Personal User Shell Folder Displayed as a Standard
Yellow Folder Icon in Vista, the step one says:

1. Open the Start Menu.
2. Type in the Shell command for the Personal User folder and press Enter..
NOTE: For a list of Shell commands and how to use it, see: How to Use the
Vista Shell Command

If I use the Shell command for the Personal User folder, it finds nothing. I
guess this means that as far as my system is concerned there is no Personal
User folder -- other Shell commands seem to work. But I do have a Personal
User folder on the C: drive. Incidentally if I navigate directly to it, it
does show as a special green folder.

Likewise in the second tutorial, the Shell command doesn't find the Personal
User folder. If I use Regedit, there isn't an entry for Documents. I even
tried creating a new regedit entry for Documents -- but that didn't seem to
work.



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