"Brink" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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> > billb;754581 Wrote: Quote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Brink" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
>> news:bcfe2bff9911dd6c1c4255a29b8db3ea@xxxxxx-gateway.com...> > >
>
>
> BillB,
>
> In the registry, Documents will be listed as the name "Personal"
> instead. This is the one you will need to Modify with the default
> "%USERPROFILE%\Documents" (no quotes) path.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn Thanks Shawn, it appears to have done the trick. Naming Documents as
Personal in the registry was probably the bit that flummoxed me. I think it
qualifies as a trap for young players.
One small point, my Documents folder is yellow, not green. Is this normal?
Is it significant?