The Vista folders beginning with "My" are not real folders. They are
junctions (shortcuts) which point to the corresponding folder e.g. "My
Music" points to "Music".
The Junction Points are in Vista for backward compatibility of pre-Vista
applications. Pre-Vista applications (applications written for XP and 2000)
look for folders that are no longer used in Vista. Folders with the “My”
prefix such as My Documents, My Pictures, and so on. There are also folders
in your user profile that have been changed in Vista, and pre-Vista apps
might be looking for the old folder structure during installation. If you
don’t set the option to Show Hidden Files in Windows Explorer, you will
rarely even see the Junction Point folders.
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"Tim Gowen" <TimGowen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A Vista Business user cannot get access to his My Documents folder on the
>C:
> drive. Normally I encourage people to use the H: drive but in this case I
> need to allow that user access to C:.
>
> Is this a Vista security feature for domain member systems? Can I get
> around it by giving the user access to his user directory in Documents &
> Settings? I tried to do this but changed rights in C:\Users which seems
> to
> be a link to the other folder and so the rights didn't work.
>
> I'm fairly new to Vista; we only have one non-Admin using it, hence the
> simple question.
>
>
> Tim