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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Help with restoring personal folders I had all of my folders (music, pictures, documents, etc) location moved to a drive on the network. I reformatted that drive. Now all of those icons on Vista are the generic white icon. If I right click and hit properties, there is no location tab, and windows can not find a previous version. Can someone help me restore these to the default location? |
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Re: Help with restoring personal folders Hello VanillaXtract, It depends if the entire user profiles where located on the network share or just your personal user folders... The individual folders inside your user profile: update these registry keys with the location of each folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellFolders and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserShellFolders). The ShellFolders keys should point to the exact folder you specify while the UserShellFolders should all start with %USERPROFILE%\locationhere Let me know how it works out dmex |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Re: Help with restoring personal folders Thanks, I ended up finding a how-to. It stated to edit the registry and to make the keys for the folders at usershell to the default values, log off and log back on and the folders would be there. Well, it worked! |
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Re: Help with restoring personal folders Glad to hear, well you know where to find us if you need some more info or help. dmex |
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